13 Fun Facts About Owls

Owls are arousing birds that attract birds' attention and curiosity easily. These facts can help clear some of their mysteries and reveal what an owl really is.

Many species of owls have asymmetrical ears. When the owl's head is at different heights, its ears can determine the location of sounds in multiple dimensions. Ready, aim, shoot.

The eyes of an owl are not real “pupils gerçek. The tubular eyes are completely immobile, providing binocular vision that fully focuses on prey and enhances depth perception.

Owls can turn their necks 270 degrees. The blood collection system collects blood to strengthen their brains and eyes when the neck movement interrupts circulation.

A group of owls is called parliament. This is C.S. Lewis's description of an owl meeting in the Chronicles of Narnia.

Owls hunt other owls. Great Horned Owls are the greatest hunter of the small Barred Owl.

The smallest owl in the world is the Elf Owl, which is 5-6 inches tall and weighs about 1 gram gram. Apparently, the largest North American owl is the Great Gray Owl, 32 inches tall.

Northern Hawk Owl, primarily by sight, can detect a mole to eat half a mile away.

In the fat years when mice are abundant, monogamous Boreal Owls tend to be hopeless. Because easy hunting means less work for parents who feed young people, while men are seen with at least one woman, three are caught mating with females.

Barn owls swallow their prey completely - skin, bone and all - and eat up to 1,000 mice every year.

Great Gray Owl. Photo: Robert Palmer / Audubon Photography Awards

Northern Saw-whet Owls can travel long distances on large water bodies. One appeared in Montauk, 70 miles from the shore near New York.

Not all owls! Barn owls make hissing sounds, Eastern Screech-Owl whining like a horse, and Saw-whet Owls look like an old whetstone ending in a saw. Hence the name.

Owls are zygodactyl; this means that his feet had two forward-facing fingers and two backward-facing fingers. Unlike other zygodactyl birds, however, owls can rotate one of their toes forward to help them grasp and walk.