page_title: List of birds of Manitoba
section_title: Owls
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Manitoba / Owls
caption_attribution_description: Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus at Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Delta, BC, Canada.
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  This list of birds of Manitoba includes all the bird species confirmed in the Canadian province of Manitoba as determined by the Manitoba Avian Research Committee. As of 2009 there were 390 species on this list. Between that date and July 2020, 12 additional species have been added through eBird. Of the 402 species, 76 are rare or accidental, 23 are classed as occasional, and eight have been introduced to Manitoba or elsewhere in North America. One species is extinct and two species have been extirpated; one of them might be extinct.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that Canadian English spellings are used and the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following codes are used to describe some categories of occurrence. The MARC Checklist provides abundance codes by region and season, and species may be abundant at one time and place and accidental in another.
context_section_description: Order: Strigiformes   Family: Strigidae
  The typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk.
  Eastern screech-owl, Megascops asio
  Great horned owl, Bubo virginianus
  Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus
  Northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula
  Burrowing owl, Athene cunicularia
  Barred owl, Strix varia
  Great grey owl, Strix nebulosa
  Long-eared owl, Asio otus
  Short-eared owl, Asio flammeus
  Boreal owl, Aegolius funereus
  Northern saw-whet owl, Aegolius acadicus
caption: Northern saw-whet owl
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