Editing Owl (section)

=== Strigidae ===
[[File:Waldohreule (Asio otus) Pfahlhaltung.jpg|thumb|upright|right|A [[long-eared owl]] (''Asio otus'') in an erect pose]]
[[File:Keulemans Laughing Owl.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[laughing owl]] (''Ninox albifacies''), last seen in 1914]]

* Genus ''[[Aegolius]]'' – the saw-whet owls, four species
* Genus ''[[Asio]]'' – the eared owls, eight species
* Genus ''[[Athene (bird)|Athene]]'' – two to four species (depending on whether the genera ''Speotyto'' and ''Heteroglaux'' are included or not)
* Genus ''[[Horned owl|Bubo]]'' – the horned owls, eagle-owls and fish-owls; paraphyletic with the genera ''Nyctea'', ''Ketupa'', and ''Scotopelia'', some 25 species
* Genus ''[[Pygmy owl|Glaucidium]]'' – the pygmy owls, about 30–35 species
* Genus ''[[Puerto Rican owl|Gymnasio]]'' – the Puerto Rican owl
* Genus ''[[Bare-legged owl|Gymnoglaux]]'' – the bare-legged owl or Cuban screech-owl
* Genus ''[[Crested owl|Lophostrix]]'' – the crested owl
* Genus ''[[Maned owl|Jubula]]'' – the maned owl
* Genus ''[[Screech owl|Megascops]]'' – the screech owls, some 20 species
* Genus ''[[Elf owl|Micrathene]]'' – the elf owl
* Genus ''[[Ninox]]'' – the Australasian hawk-owls or boobooks, some 20 species
* Genus ''[[Scops owl|Otus]]'' – the scops owls; probably [[paraphyletic]], about 45 species
* Genus ''[[Jamaican owl|Pseudoscops]]'' – the Jamaican owl
* Genus ''[[Flammulated owl|Psiloscops]]'' – the flammulated owl
* Genus ''[[Ptilopsis]]'' – the white-faced owls, two species
* Genus ''[[Pulsatrix]]'' – the spectacled owls, three species
* Genus ''[[Strix (genus)|Strix]]'' – the earless owls, about 15 species, including four previously assigned to ''Ciccaba''
* Genus ''[[Northern hawk-owl|Surnia]]'' – the northern hawk-owl
* Genus ''[[Taenioptynx]]'' - the collared owlet
* Genus ''[[Papuan hawk-owl|Uroglaux]]'' – the Papuan hawk-owl
* Genus ''[[Long-whiskered owlet|Xenoglaux]]'' – the long-whiskered owlet
'''Extinct genera'''
* Genus ''[[Stilt-owl|Grallistrix]]'' – the stilt-owls, four species; [[Late Quaternary prehistoric birds|prehistoric]]
* Genus ''[[Ornimegalonyx]]'' – the Caribbean giant owls, one to two species; [[Late Quaternary prehistoric birds|prehistoric]]
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'''Fossil genera'''
* ''Mioglaux'' (Late Oligocene? – Early Miocene of West-Central Europe) – includes ''"Bubo" poirreiri''
* ''Intutula'' (Early/Middle – ?Late Miocene of Central Europe) – includes ''"Strix/Ninox" brevis''
* ''Alasio'' (Middle Miocene of Vieux-Collonges, France) – includes ''"Strix" collongensis''
* ''[[Oraristrix]]'' – the Brea owl (Late Pleistocene)
'''Placement unresolved'''
* ''"Otus/Strix" wintershofensis'': [[fossil]] (Early/Middle Miocene of Wintershof West, Germany) – may be close to extant genus ''Ninox''<ref name=Olson/>
* ''"Strix" edwardsi'' – [[fossil]] (Middle/Late? Miocene)
* ''"Asio" pygmaeus'' – [[fossil]] (Early Pliocene of Odesa, Ukraine)
* Strigidae gen. et sp. indet. UMMP V31030 (Late Pliocene)&nbsp;– ''Strix/Bubo''?
* the Ibizan owl, Strigidae ''gen. et sp. indet.'' – [[Late Quaternary prehistoric birds|prehistoric]]<ref name=Sanchez/>

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