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Tyto capensis
The Grass Owl looks like a white ghost bird at night but, in the daylight, you can see the back is golden brown. It is a bird of the night, flying slowly and quietly backwards and forwards over long grass.
It finds food by listening for the tiny squeaks and rustlings of mice and rats. It makes a nest in the grass too, usually just a flattened platform under a tussock to lay four, five or six eggs depending how many mice are in the area. When there are lots of mice there can be lots of Grass Owls, but when mice are scarce Grass Owls disappear too.
Text by Stephen Garnett
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