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• Owls have more rods in their eyes
• They mostly hunt at night
• They have an accute sense of hearing

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• An owls ears are on a different angle
• They can turn their head to 270 degrees
• They have soft feathers

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• Great horned owls can carry up to 3x their weight
• They have soft feathers so the prey cant hear them
• There is only 18 species of owls

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• Owls can not see in color
• Some eat plants

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• Baby owls are call owlets
• Their eyes open 10-12 days
• The owls stay with their mom for 32 days

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• There are 200 species of owls
• The young take approximately 8 weeks to fledge.
• Eggs take between 29 and 34 days to hatch.

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• At 28 days, the tail feathers emerge and the iris turns from yellow to brown.
• By 35 days, the birds begin to wander around the nest; the eldest may peer out of the entrance hole.
• The young begin to wander from the nest between 5 and 8 weeks old, but generally can not fly well until their 8th week.

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• Fledglings in the northern United States tend to disperse wide and far before the winter—some birds travel over a thousand miles, and the predominant direction is south. In the spring, some birds show a tendency to return toward their natal area.
• Barn owls can reproduce when one year old.

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• As soon as they can fly they leave the nest
• They owls have to find their own territory
• Because the food is scarsee