Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2016 Amelia, the short-eared owl The Draper Museum Raptor Experience recently added a short-eared owl to its ranks. Short-eared owls prey mainly on rodents and small birds in grasslands and open shrublands through much of North America. The Raptor Experience’s new bird, a female, weighs in at […]
For many people owls are a favorite bird, with Short-eared Owls being just one of more than 200 species worldwide. The smallest, the Elf Owl, resides in the south western part of the United States to Central Mexico, and Baja California. The largest, the Blakiston Fish Owl, lives in Siberia, NE China, and Hokkaido Island […]
The Order of owls (Strigiformes) is a well loved group of birds. In fact, it is the owls that we humans have tagged as wise. Why is that? The main theory is that, unlike other birds, owl’s eyes are on the front of their faces. Their faces are also more rounded, giving them a somewhat […]