Thursday, October 28, 2010

Athena the Barred Owl

Today, a West Sound Wildlife Shelter presenter and their ambassador, Athena, visited our classroom. During the presentation you learned many interesting Barred Owl facts. You learned about its habitat, hunting habits, and unique characteristics. Tonight, please respond to at least 3 of the 6 questions below. Make sure you use complete sentences and correct conventions. Don't forget to put your first name only at the bottom of your comment before your post.

1. What are 2 unique characteristics of Barred owls that make them good hunters?
2. What type of habitat do Barred owls need?
3. What animals are part of a Barred owls diet?
4. How does this diet compare to that of Spotted Owls?
5. What is a crop and how is it used?
6. What are 2 other interesting things you learned today in our presentation?

30 comments:

  1. 1.sight and their claws
    2.forest
    3.rats and moles
    6. owls can turn there head to a ninty degree angle.

    -Joshua

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  2. The type of habitat an barred owl needs is a old growth forest. The barred owls diet are small rodents. Two interesting things I learned are you should not rescue an animal without a parnets permisson and it's importent that you should not kill these creatures cause there really importent in life.
    -Muskaan

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  3. Q6.2 interresting facts i learned was a owl like(Athena) there chest can get puffy and if its hot.Also i leaarned that when a owlet is born it has big claws!Q1 i think barred owls are good hunters by its head because its head can turn 270 degrees so she can see mostly around her.also she has sharp claws to catch prey.Q2 the type of habitat that the barred owl lives in is a macher forest (not od growth forest).

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  4. A barred owl needs a regular forest for its habitat. Part of the barred owls diet is Insectivores, Rodents and Birds. I learned that an owl can turn its head to a 270 degree angle. Also I leared that they use their talons to crush the scull of their prey.
    -Matthew

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  5. The chararistics that help Athena hunt are that they have huge black eyes and talons. Barred owls need the habbitat of mature forests.The crop is a extra stomach that is used to help digest there food better. Kaleb

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  6. A barred owl uses its beak to hook fish and they use there talons to kill the animal. There habitats are usully in reguler forests. From the presentation today, i learned that owls turn there head to 270 degrees and they can see very far like as long as a football field.

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  7. What are 2 unique characteristics of Barred owls that make them good hunters? Their talons or
    feet,and their hearing or eyesight. What animals are part of a Barred owls diet? This is all I can
    remember: insects, rodents, and lizirds.What are 2 other interesting things you learned today in our presentation? 1.Owls can only can see in front of them. 2.How Athena to the Wild Life Shelter.

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  8. The habitat a Barred Owl needs are mature forest. Some animals of the Barred Owls Diet are flying squirrels, rats, mice, fish, snakes, voles, and small birds like robins. I also learned that the Crop is a part in the owls throat that a swallowed animal is taken to. Then the acids in the Crop dissolve all the meat. The meat goes to the stomach. The fur and bones do not dissolve. They are put in a pellet that the owl spits out. It's basically another stomach that owls have.
    - Ryan

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  9. 2 unique characteristics for hunting are their talons that kill the pray and their good sents of seeing.

    2 other things I learned from the presentation were that they can turn their head 270 degrees and that the owlets like to eat more and more food each day.

    The habitat that barn owls need is growth forests not old growth forests.

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  10. Barred owls need old growth forests (with trees of course!)Some interesting things I learned from todays presentation is that owls can turn their heads 270 deegres! Amazing! Also they have a really large wingspand of two grown up arms! Barred owls eat mice, snakes, birds and rats.
    -Daniela

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  11. 1. Athena has terrific sight and hearing that help find food which she would catch with her sharp talons.
    2. Barred owls need to live in the tall, strong trees of old-growth forests.
    3. A Barred owl like Athena would eat things like rats, mice, voles, chipmunks, lizards, frogs, fish, birds, and large insects.
    5. A crop is a second stomach that softens and digests the meat Barred owls eat and separates the bones/fur, then regurgitate the bones/fur into pellets.
    6. I learned that owls have rather large ears/eyes and have one ear higher than the other ear to hear things in higher depth.

    brian

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  12. 1.owls have good vision and a good grip with there talons/feet which makes them good hunters.2.barred eagles need a regular forest.6.owls have as large eyes as your fist and they can only see what is right infrout of them

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  13. When the Wildlife Shelter presenter came in and talked to us about Barred owls I learned that they were very flexible and would eat almost anything. I also learned that Barred owls like places near water and that they need 200 to 900 acres of land to survive. Some adaptations owls have for hunting at night are:

    1.large eyes (good eye sight)
    2.great hearing
    3.sharp talons

    I think its pretty cool owls can turn their head 270 degrees around. That's almost the whole way around

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  14. 1.sight and claws. 2.forest. 3.rodents,mole and birds.

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  15. 1.Athena has very good vision and claws that help her get her food
    2.The habitat Barred owls live in is the Old Growth forest
    3.Athena eats things like rats, mice,voles,lizards,
    small birds,frogs,fish,chipmunks,and large insects
    6.Owls can turn its head almost all the way around
    and when animals are hurt they heal the animals

    -Samika

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  16. Barred Owls live in old growth forests because they like to be high up and away from people and predators.

    Barred Owls like to eat rodents, flying squirrels and any animal they can catch.

    Since owls can't make their eyes go up and down, as their food gets closer, it goes out of sight. Owls can also make one eye have a small pupil and the other eye have a big pupil.

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  17. A Barred owl need a place that has tall trees and a lot of food. The characteristics of the Barred owl is that they have big eyes and when they are being attacked they put one wing on their body and the other wing up. The owl's diet is snakes, insects, and birds.-Alexis

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  18. What are 2 unique characteristics of Barred owls that make them good hunters? 1 of them is that they have excellent sight. The other is that their sharp talons help them hold onto their prey once they've caught it. What are 2 other interesting things you learned today in our presentation? I learned that many animals get hurt. I also learned the stages in a barred owls life.

    - Alex

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  19. 1.Barred owls huge eyes for keen eyesight, and terrific talons.
    2.The barred owls need second growth forests as their habitat.
    3.rodents, such as mice, rats, and moles are a delicous meal for the barred owls.
    5.A crop is a little stomach the grinds up the food before digesting.
    6. Raptors can turn their head to a 270 degrees angle

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  20. Q1 - They use there claws and great eye sight.

    Q2 - Typical Barred Owl habitat consists of forests with some mature trees near open country. The historic range encompassed the eastern half of the United States, but recently the owl’s range is expanding into western North America.

    Q3 - They eat deer mice,wood rats, fish, flying squirrels, moles,other birds, bats, crayfish, reptiles,rabbits, weasels,and,amphibians

    Q4- The diet of the barred owl is basicly the same as the spotted owl.

    Q5 - A crop is like another stomach,they use it by eating ther food whole,then it goes to the crop and it gets smashed.Then after all that happens the food goes to the other stomach.

    Q6 - I learned that they have a second stomach called a crop.I also learn that the females wings are a lot larger.

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  21. 2. A barred owl lives in secondary growth forests.
    3. Mostly rodents, secondly birds and lastly insects.
    5. A crop is a thing on the side of the owls neck that is like a first stomach. It is as if there are teeth in the stomach that chew the food so the owl can swallow.
    -Jacqueline

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  22. Barred owls need to eat crickets and drink water to live.The also sometimes eat mice or other rodents.Barred owls dont need lots of space for there habitat because then they wont find much food and catch prey.Two other things I saw at the presentation: I liked seeing the owl spinning its head 275 degres clock wise and I liked seeing the owl try the owl trying to escape.

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  23. 1. What makes owls good hunters is their huge feet and the owls very big eyes wich helps them to see small detals far away.
    2. The forest barred owls like to live in is secendary growth forest. They not as picky as spoted owls for their homes.
    3. They are also not as picky for their food, so they will eat any food that is meat.

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  24. Q1 Barred owls need a habitat that has lots of rodents, small birds and insectivores. They also need a nice nest which they often steal from crows or squirels.

    Q2 Barred owls eat rodents 90 percent of the time, birds 5 percent of the time and insectivores 5 percent of the time (which is not that much).

    Q3 I learned that owls have a thing in their neck called a crop. The crop is used when the owl eats something. The owl swallows their food whole then it goes into the crop and the crop brakes down the food so the owl dosen't choke.

    Bradley

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  25. 3 intresting facts i know about barred owls are: one of them is some of the animals in a barred owls diet are mice, rabbits, and flying squirrels and the difference between a spotted owl is that spotted owls mostly only eat flying squirels. another intresting fact about barred owls are that when they catch their pray they spread out their fingers the snatch their pray by closing their fingers back again. Another good thing about their body that helps catch their pray is that when they fly their wings are realy quiet. -chloe

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  26. 2 unique fetures that makes them good hunters are, long sharp talons, unbeilevable eye sight. How the crop is worked by, first the prey is swolled hole, then when it goes through the crop it holds up all the fur and bones and they barf it up later. Some animals in its diet are, rodents, and small birds,
    -Richard

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  27. Barred owls need second old growth forest.
    AN owl can turn its head at a two-hundred nintey degree angle, and they can make their pupils big, and small when they WANT to.
    A barred owl eats 1 mice, or other birds(blue jays, etc

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  28. 1.the diet of a Barred owl is:rats,small birds,shrews,moles,and many other animals.Two interesting features that help the barred owl hunt are:their curved beak to tear into their prey,and their sharp talons to crush their prey.The crop is used to crush up the food that the owl swallowed so that the bird can digest it.
    -Ella

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  29. 1.2 unique characteristics that make barred owls a good hunter is they have good eye sight and they have strong feet to grab prey
    2.A habitat a barred owl needs is anything with other animals,plants and trees.
    3.animals that are part of a owls diet are rats and moles.
    4.Two interesting things I learned about a owl is they can turn their head to a two hundred degree angle because they can only look straight. That means they have to be able to look behind their head.Also there eyes are as big as your fist.

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  30. 1 The habitat the barred owl needs is the forests.2 The diet of a barred owl is rodents,birds and moles. 3 The intresting thing I learned is that the barred owl can turn there head 270 degrees, amazing.

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