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Burrowing Owl

Burrowing Owl. Athene cunicularia. By: Hope. A.K.A. What makes a Bird Of Pray a Bird Of Pray. Their talons and beaks tend to be relatively large, powerful and adapted for tearing and/or piercing flesh including other birds.

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Burrowing Owl

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  1. Burrowing Owl Athenecunicularia By: Hope A.K.A

  2. What makes a Bird Of Pray a Bird Of Pray • Their talons and beaks tend to be relatively large, powerful and adapted for tearing and/or piercing flesh including other birds. • They are defined as birds that primarily hunt vertebrates, including other birds. • Birds of prey are birds that hunt for food primarily on the wing, using their keen senses, especially vision • Birds of prey, or raptors, are meat eaters and use their feet, instead of their beak, to capture prey. They have exceptionally good vision, a sharp, hooked beak, and powerful feet with curved, sharp talons.

  3. What the Burrowing Owl looks like • They have what looks like white eyebrows • Brownish white feathers • Long legs • Bright yellow eyes • 7 1/2”-10” • 21” wingspan • 6 ounces

  4. Where they live • They live underground in burrows that have been dug out by small mammals like ground squirrels and prairie dogs • They are found all the way from Canada to Brazil • They burrow on fence posts and trees

  5. Burrowing Owls diet • Small mammals • Insects • Reptiles • Amphibians • Small birds • they gather food for their large broods

  6. Burrowing Owl Reproduction • Early spring • Gestation 28 days • 3-12 eggs • The chicks can fly at 6 weeks • The young owls begin appearing at the burrow’s entrance two weeks after hatching and leave the nest to hunt for insects on their own after about 45 days. young will make a snake hissing sound

  7. Burrowing Owls call and behavior • video • call

  8. What makes a Burrowing Owl a bird of pray • It caches their pray with its feet • Long legs • mammal dung, usually from cattle • Hearing and vision are extremely acute although they are nearly color blind and have no eye-movement • hunts by walking, hopping, or running along the ground

  9. DDT • First synthesized in 1874 • Paul Hermann Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT • DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939\ • second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus

  10. How my bird is doing in the world • less than 10,000 breeding pairs • Endangered • land is used for farming, roads, homes

  11. Threats • habitat destruction • Land development • agricultural development • pesticides • horned owls, hawks, foxes, badgers and even domestic pets

  12. Other facts • bob their heads to express excitement or distress. • the dung attracts dung beetles, which the owl then captures and eats

  13. References • http://bss.sfsu.edu/holzman/courses/Fall%2003%20project/Burrowing%20Owls.htm • http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/burrowing_owl.php# • google

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