Mane colour varies from sandy, tawny, isabelline, light reddish yellow to dark brown and black. The Iberian lynx has a short bright yellowish to tawny coloured spotted fur. The lores are tawny, the crown tawny mottled black. The ear tufts are usually dusky in front and paler tawny on the back. The offspring were tawny with pale spots. The undercoat should be very pale grey or cream (not tawny). The background color may be correspondingly tawny, sandy or golden. Merlins, tawny and long-eared owls also hunt goldcrests. Southern African wildcats, black-backed jackals, black eagles, martial eagles, and tawny eagles target juveniles. The calf has a tawny, shaggy coat and weighs about . The Ural owl tends to dominate interspecific conflicts with tawny owls. The global prey spectrum for tawny owls includes well over 400 prey species. Ligers have a tiger-like striped pattern that is very faint upon a lionesque tawny background. Much more dangerous than larger "Strix" species to the tawny owl is the Eurasian eagle-owl. Finley was married to actress Tawny Kitaen from 1997 to 2002.