Barn Owls

Great Horned Owl

Snowy Owl

• The owl is the only bird that can look at something with both eyes.
• Those who investigate haunted houses look first for barn owls in the attic. They deliver some pretty eerie shrieks and hisses.
• A barn owl hears so well because its face is like a TV dish antenna. Its whole head is a sound collector.
• If you see an owl perched on a power pole, it could just be a plastic scare owl. The power people put them there to scare off other birds that might want to sit on the poles.
• The "horns" on the great horned owl are really feathers.
• Great horned owls lay round eggs.
• The eyes of a snowy owl are as big as yours or mine.
• Florence Nightingale carried around a pet owl in her pocket.
• Among great horned owls, it's the female that hoots baritone; the male hoots soprano... to prove it wasn't poisoned.