Little owl in Norfolk, England (photo from Wikimedia Commons)

27 June 2025

We have little owls in North American but not The Little Owl, Athene noctua, native to parts of Eurasia and North Africa and introduced to Britain and New Zealand.

Watch a little owl hunt for a worm for its chicks in this video by Robert E Fuller. You can tell how small the owl is when it picks up the earthworm in its beak!