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I agree.
How rude to not include burrowing owls.
Burrowing owl: They what?

Oooooooh s#!+ the BAS is in for it now
I think this is just the owls of New York. Someone asked why Screech was there twice, but no Barn Owl, and they said NY doesn't regularly get Barn Owls.
If you included the Barnie, this would be the list of the owls we have next door here in Pennsylvania, so that checks out.
How do you beat the Great Horned Owl tho? Those things are absolute units, when you see one in a tree they are so big you think you have spotted some kind of alien spaceship hovering above you.
Almost all the pictures of Great Horned Owls online are taken with fancy cameras with zoom lenses that cost more than my car, they bring out superb detail but they miss the experience of managing to see a Great Horned Owl in the woods during the day.
It goes like this, walking through the forest amid the tree branches you spot this impossibly big dark sleak teardrop shape with catlike "ears" looming high up in the branches above you. Against the bright sky the dark shape is reduced to a strikingly streamlined silhouette. For a second your brain stem takes over and you think "oh shit, I had no idea that was there I just randomly looked up, is that an alien watching me!? what is that?!?!" and then you remember that owls exist.
That first moment though, mmm it reminds me of how spooky the woods are in the best way even when we know the creatures that lurk in it well.
How do you beat the Great Horned Owl tho?
*Ahem!*
With style, and grace! . . ehr . . Okay, style and derpage. And being an awesome £#%*$! owl, that’s how!

Take my word for it, it gets a lot more complicated when you toss in all the world's amazing owlies!
Snowy is a little bigger, but I believe GHO is considered more powerful, plus Snowy is only seasonal, so I think that is a point to be considered. I'm with you though. If you ask me, GHO is the owliest owl of North America as a whole. The others all have their virtues, but come ooooon...we're talking Great Horned Owl here....
Who?
Who indeed!
A regional non-profit imitation is allowable on a temporary basis. Although I didn’t think red morph screechies were east coast, but - whatevs.
Yeahhh, my mission is the same as theirs at the end of the day. When it popped up someone else was doing an owl bracket on my Google owl news though, I was quite surprised though! But not even an acknowledgement! Harrumph...
ESO comes in grey, red, and brown. Grey has a heavier distribution as you go north, more red as you move south (we have a good mix in PA), and the brown are only really around Florida.
Western Screech has more a gradient between grey to brown, with no red morph.
Ah, well fair enough then.
The great horned owl should win because they live near me and do their wonderful hoot every autumn :)
That hoot's got so much range, the whole neighborhood knows about its superb-ness!