'Great Horned', 'Snowy' and 'Pygmy' are all species of which bird?
Great horned owl the species is generically allopatric with the exception of wintering snowy owls. More tropical species with ear tufts, the stygian owl ("A. stygius") and striped owl ("Pseudoscops clamator"), are much smaller. Other large owls lack ear tufts. The great horned owl is part of the genus "Bubo", which may include as many as 25 other extant taxa, predominantly distributed throughout Africa. The great horned owl represents one of the one or two radiations of this genus across the Bering land bridge to the Americas. Whereas the Magellanic horned owl clearly divided once the owl had spread through the Americas, the
Pygmy short-horned lizard Pygmy short-horned lizard The pygmy short-horned lizard ("Phrynosoma douglasii") is a species of small horned lizard that occurs in the northwestern United States. In the past it also occurred in adjacent Canada. Like other horned lizards, it is often called a "horned toad" or "horny toad," but it is not a toad at all. It is a reptile, not an amphibian. The specific name, "douglasii", is in honor of Scottish botanist David Douglas. The pygmy short-horned lizard is often mistaken for its close relative the greater short-horned lizard ("P. hernandesi" ) which has the same basic body type consisting of