"The Spotted Owlet (Athene brama) is a small owl which breeds in tropical Asia from India to Southeast Asia. This spotted owl is adjusted to living in cities. They live in the hollows of trees or in cavities in rocks or buildings. It nests in a hole in a tree , laying 3-5 eggs. The species shows a lot of variation including clinal variation in size and forms a superspecies with the very similar Little Owl. The breeding season is November to April. The upperparts of the spotted owls are grey-brown, heavily spotted with white. The underparts are white, streaked with brown. The facial disc is pale and the iris is yellow. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and [email protected].
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