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Barn Owls What Amazing Predators

Barn Owls What Amazing Predators. Created by: Mrs. Cosnowski. Barn Owls. This is a picture of a Barn O wl. You can tell this is a Barn O wl by the heart shaped face. Where Barn Owls Live.

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Barn Owls What Amazing Predators

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  1. Barn Owls What Amazing Predators Created by: Mrs. Cosnowski

  2. Barn Owls • This is a picture of a Barn Owl. • You can tell this is a Barn Owl by the heart shaped face.

  3. Where Barn Owls Live • They live in open countryside that contains a good mixture of rough grasslands, marsh land, young trees, edge of woodland, old barns, tree hollows and nest boxes.

  4. Owl Facts • Barn Owls are nocturnal, meaning they hunt at night. • They are carnivores, meaning they eat meat.

  5. How Barn Owls Hunt • Barn Owls mainly hunt by sound rather than by sight. With its acute hearing the Barn Owl can detect the slightest movement & sound of its prey. The ears are set with one higher than the other under the feathering of the inside edge of the facial disc, located next to the eyes. The facial disc acts as an amazing sound funnel, collecting & filtering sound. This allows the owl to detect the movement of its prey with complete accuracy.

  6. What Barn Owls Eat • The main diet for the Barn Owl is the short-tailed vole; other rodents include shrews, wood mice & young rats. They swallow their pray whole digesting what they are able from their meal.

  7. Barn Owl Eating Prey

  8. Owl Pellets • An owl can’t digest everything it consumes from it’s meal. So what happens to the material it can’t digest? It becomes a small oval shaped pellet that contains the bone, fur and feathers from the animals it has eaten. He coughs it up and spits it out, much like a cat and a fur ball.

  9. Where Does the Pellet Come From?

  10. Contents of Pellets • In the center you can see the skulls of the animals this owl ate. They will often eat many animals before they dispose of the indigestible material.

  11. Virtual Owl Pellets During our next Science lesson, you’ll be dissecting your own owl pellet to discover what they had for dinner. Let’s explore virtually what you’ll be doing during this process. http://www.kidwings.com/owlpellets/flash/v4/index.htm

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