About Owls

By: Jamie Dawson

     

 

Table of Contents

 

1. Chapter 1 What Owls Look Like Page 3

2. Chapter 2 Other Interesting Owl Facts Page 4

3. Chapter 3 What Owls Do Page 5

4. Chapter 4 What And How Owls Eat Page 6

5. Chapter 5 Where Owls Live

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 1

 

 

What Owls Look Like

 

Many people think owls look frightening. Owls are really actually very beautiful. An owls eyes face straight ahead instead of facing the side, like other birds. Owls have very large eyes to help them fly at night.  Owls have round faces covered in soft, fluffy, feathers. Some owls have white feathers on their faces. It helps if an owl has a pie shaped face. Owls have ears that are hidden beneath their feathers. Some owls have white feathers with brown spots. Owls have feathers and wings. Owl chicks are born with soft, fluffy feathers. Owls have sharp talons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 2

 

Other Interesting Owl Facts

 

OwlÕs talons are so sharp that an owl could pounce onto an ice cube and the ice cube would stick to the talons. An owl can hear a beetle in the grass up to 100 feet away. Most owls are nocturnal. It would take 60 elf owls to weigh as much as a snowy owl. Owls turn their head all the way around to see whatÕs behind it. The smallest owl in the world is the elf owl. Owls are birds. An owl can hear very well in fact, an owl can hear better than it can see. If your eyes were the same size as an owlÕ s, they would be the size as a tennis ball. Owls cannot move their eyes from side to side, and they have to move their whole head instead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 3

 

What Owls Do

 

An owl can swallow a lizard whole. Owls can shriek and sing. Owls hunt at night. Owls lay eggs and baby owls come out of the eggs. Many owls store extra food during the nesting season to help them feed their hungry chicks. In a really good year, a female snowy owl can lay as many as 14 owl eggs. Sometimes snowy owl will fly as far as south Texas. Once two owls mate, they prepare to raise a family. To raise a family they need to find a nest. An owl can fly through trees very quietly. Owls will memorize the location and pattern of the trees in the forest that they live in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 4

 

What and How Owls Eat

 

Owls eat lizards and other things. Owls use their sharp hearing and eyesight to hunt for their food. Owls can focus their eyes on their food very quickly. Owls use their hearing to find food. Owls grab food with their talons. Most owls hunt and move around in darkness. Owls like to eat rodents. Most owls eat insects, other birds, and snakes. Bigger kinds of owls eat squirrels and rabbits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 5

 

Where Owls Live

 

Most of the small and medium sized owls make their nests in hollow branches, in tree trunks, or in old woodpecker holes. There are hidden from predators and sheltered from really bad weather. Snowy owls are mainly found in the Arctic. Lots of owls live in the United States. Owls find their homes in many places like caves, tree holes, trunks, bushes and forests. Owls like to live in dark places. Owls in the desert live in cactuses and get water from them. They sometimes live in rain forests, tree trunks, and holes. Some owls live on the very tops of trees. Some owls live in zoos. And some owls live in the same place all year.