Owls are a group of birds that are members of the order Strigiformes. These birds include wild bird groups (carnivores, meat eaters) and are nocturnal animals (nocturnal). Altogether, there are about 222 known species, which spread throughout the world except Antarctica, most of Greenland, and some remote islands.
In the western world, this animal is considered a symbol of wisdom, but in some places in Indonesia are considered carriers foreshadow death, hence its name Owl. Although it is not at all the places in the archipelago this bird called the owl. In Java, for example, the name of this bird is manuk Dares Dares or that there is no connotation with death or ghosts. In North Sulawesi, owls known as Manguni.
Owls are known for big eyes and facing forward, not like most other bird species whose eyes facing sideways. Together with a crooked beak sharp as an eagle beak and feather structure in the head in a circle face, appearance "face" the owl is so impressive and sometimes creepy. Moreover, the bird's neck is so flexible so that his face can rotate 180 degrees to the rear.
Generally owl feathers mottled, brown or gray with patches of black and white. Combined with behavior that is often still and not move around, making this bird is not easily visible; so even when sleeping during the day under the auspices of the leaves. Owl tail generally short, but its wings big and wide. Wing span reaches roughly three times the body length.
Additionally These animals are often considered to be unlucky for some people. Because of its mysterious, like it appears in the evening. Unfortunately today it is threatened bird habitat because of logging of trees in the wild. But do you know the facts about owls? Here I explain one by one.
- Owl has 150 different species that live scattered in all continents of the world, of course, except Antarctic continent.
- Owls are carnivores or meat-eating animals. Their main meal is small rodents such as mice. Owls that live on farms were even able to eat 1000 rats per year. Other foods of the owl are insects, small reptiles, and fish.
- The owl has a unique ear with different sizes and with his head high. This unique shape provides super hearing to this bird. It could even be said Owls are the best bird hearing power. This is very helpful in determining the movement of owls prey, rather than relying on the ability of a pretty bad eyes.Owls have sheets of fur around her ears. These sheets are not for helping the hearing, but to meperlihatkan condition of the bird, camouflaged, or to scare off other birds.
- Owl eyes by eye bone so it can not be moved to glance right or left. Owl head is very great. Why is that? Because the head can rotate up to 270 degrees. An owl has three eyelids. One to blink, one for sleeping and one to keep the eyes to keep them clean and healthy.
- The feet are the feet zygodactyl owl with two fingers and two fingers behind the back. Shape of the foot like this the more reinforcing it as a Predator.
- Owls have been around for a long time, as evidenced by the use of an owl in ancient symbols such as the Egyptians and the Mayans. The oldest fossils found an owl is thought to have lived 58 million years old. The biggest is Orinmegalonyx oteroi, with about 3 feet high.
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