Southern White Faced Owl Wallpaper
This Southern White Faced Owl wallpaper puts you face to face with Ptilopsis granti — the bold white facial disc edged in black, those burning orange-red eyes, and an expression that can only be described as deeply unimpressed. Found across sub-Saharan Africa in open woodland and savanna, the Southern White-faced Owl is famous among owl enthusiasts for one extraordinary defensive behavior: when threatened by a large predator it inflates itself to look enormous, and when threatened by a small one it compresses to a thin, branch-like silhouette to disappear entirely. The Owl Pages has a full profile on this remarkable species. This portrait catches it in neither mode — just watchful, alert, and thoroughly in command of the frame.
Southern White Faced Owl Wallpaper — Small Bird, Maximum Attitude
Barely the size of a coffee mug, somehow filling every inch of this photograph. Download this free HD wallpaper and browse more outstanding bird portraits in our birds collection.
