How do owls see at night?
Owls hunt when you can barely see your own hand. Their huge eyes face forward and gather every bit of dim light. Pick an owl and try its eyes on your photo to see the night its way.
A simulation made from published eye studies. Not what the animal feels.
The same photo through their eyes
Play today's Guess the Eye: can you tell these eyes apart?
Animals with these eyes
- Great horned owl
- Tawny owl
- Barn owl
- Little owl
- Great grey owl
- Snowy owl
- Australian masked owl
- Barred owl
- Brown wood-owl
- Burrowing owl
- Cape eagle-owl
- Chaco owl
- Collared scops-owl
- Common scops-owl
- Eurasian eagle owl
- European nightjar
- Giant eagle-owl
- Northern hawk-owl
- Northern long-eared owl
- Rock eagle-owl
- Rufous-legged owl
- Short-eared owl
- Southern boobook
- Southern white-faced owl
- Spectacled owl
- Spotted eagle-owl
- Striped owl
- Ural owl
- Western screech-owl
- American barn owl