More diurnal than most owls, occasionally even hunting in daytime. Normally settles and roosts on the ground. Flies with deliberate full wing beats. Mainly crepuscular and nocturnal though little incommoded by sunlight, flying freely on disturbance.
Pairs spend the daytime secluded in tree-holes or cuddled on a leafy branch.
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