These Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are preserved in a variety of different ways in Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s collection—from eggs to fluid preserved specimens in alcohol. Each type of preparation allows different types of study.
Screech owls are small owls that can be found throughout Pennsylvania and are occasionally banded at Powdermill Nature Reserve—the museum’s environmental research center in Rector, Pennsylvania—and many live within the Pittsburgh city limits.
