Appearance
The Brown Wood Owl is medium large, with upperparts uniformly dark brown, with faint white spotting on the shoulders. The underparts are buff with brown streaking. The facial disc is brown or rufous, edged with white and without concentric barring, and the eyes are dark brown. There is a white neckband. The sexes are similar.
Behavior
The call is a " hoo hoo HOO" or a deep "goke-goke-ga-LOOO" or a loud scream. The alarm call is a bark, "wow-wow". Some subspecies are known to produce distinct vocalizations; they are also different in appearance and parapatric, and might be distinct species: The northern "Strix newarensis" group which occur from the Himalayan foothills of Kashmir east to Taiwan have a soft low "to-hooh" not unlike a rock dove cooing. "S. bartelsi", Javan Wood-owl from Java, the southeasternmost taxon, has a loud, forceful, single "HOOH!" with long pauses between calls.
Habitat
It is an uncommon resident bird of dense forests. This species is very nocturnal but it can often be located by the small birds that mob it while it is roosting in a tree.
Reproduction
It nests in a hole in a tree or on a forked trunk, laying two eggs.
Food
It feeds mainly on small mammals birds and reptiles.References:
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