BOTW 8/9 - 8/13

Barn. Owl. Facts.

Hi Bird People!

No fancy intro this week, just straight bird facts.

Bird: Barn Owl

Fact 1: Barn Owls like barns. Seriously, they like to live in barns. Also church steeples, other barn-like structures and sometimes trees (if they are hippy owls…)

Fact 2: Barn Owls like rats/mice. It goes along with the whole liking-barns thing. Have a rat/mouse problem? Step 1) Build a barn. Step 2) attract a Barn Owl. Step 3) Mission Accomplished

Fact 3: These birds are like reverse-birders. They can identify the type of prey by their sounds. Take that, Merlin Sound ID

Fact 4: It would not be fun to be eaten by this owl. They eat their prey whole but “those too large to swallow are eaten piecemeal with heads…occasionally discarded.”* Gruesome stuff, man.

Fact 5: The sounds this bird make are so horrifying, I refuse to attach a link here. If you want to hear a naturally-created horror movie noise, you can look it up.

Have a wonderful week!

*Quote from Birds of the World account of the Barn Owl