Short-eared Owls often hunt over grassy fields in daylight: very un-owl like behavior. Besides showing them hunting, the video also shows their territorial fights.(Filmed at B.K. Leach Memorial Conservation Area and Riverlands Migratory Bird Center near St. Louis, MO)
Many thanks to Mel Diotte for the use of his videos and photos of the owl (https://www.flickr.com/search/people/...) and Lisa Saffell for footage of the owls fighting (   / lisasaffell  . Several other people let me use their photos, and I thank them: Harold Feiertag (https://www.flickr.com/photos/feierta..., Brian Kushner (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bkushne..., Gordon Linton (https://www.flickr.com/photos/4913351..., Eddy Matuod (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mama_lu..., Martin Passchier (https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosa..., and Geoffrey Shuen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoffre....