Owls in Texas
Our list for Texas has 10 owls recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 3 summer visitors, 2 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Texas in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 10, most common first
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianusResidentUncommon46–63 cmRecorded all year
Barred OwlStrix variaResidentUncommon43–50 cmRecorded all year
Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asioResidentUncommon16–25 cmRecorded all year
Burrowing OwlAthene cuniculariaResidentRare19–25 cmRecorded all year
Elf OwlMicrathene whitneyiSummer visitorRare13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Short-eared OwlAsio flammeusWinter visitorRare34–43 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Western Screech-owlMegascops kennicottiiSummer visitorRare19–25 cmRecorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owlGlaucidium brasilianumWinter visitorRare15–19 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Flammulated OwlPsiloscops flammeolusSummer visitorRare15–17 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicusPassage migrantRare17–21 cmRegularly May–Jun
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made