Great Horned Owl chick in spruce forest Alaska
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
A young Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus), silent hunter of the boreal forest, stands on the ground after first fledging, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
This little guy had landed on the grounded, and before long flew off to a nearby white spruce tree in the boreal forest. Great Horned Owl, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
Bubo virginianus. Photo © copyright by Carl Donohue.