The Owl
The owl is one of the birds of prey because of its prey claws and its powerful beak that helps it devour its prey, and the owl is active at night to pick up its prey and get its food.
The owl is important because it maintains the environmental balance, and if it set an example in pessimism, some ancient civilizations took it as a symbol of reverence and wisdom, as happened with the Greeks. And it was glorified by some pharaohs kings like Ramses.
And the owl also remains of great importance to farmers by ridding them of mice, and there are various types of them according to their characteristics and ways of life. And because of the uniqueness of the owl with its unique appearance, it makes everyone recognize it directly after looking at it despite its many types, including the Great Grey owl that activates during the day and hunts mice, the Barn owl who lives in Antarctica, the burrowing owl and takes the burrows as his home, and the Tytonidae which is the largest Owls by size.
Tytonidae
Barn owl
Great grey owl
The owl is characterized by a terrible appearance and a circular face which makes it look like a cup dish and does not make any noise when hunting its prey because of its soft and fine feathers. Owl eyes differ from any other bird and are directly related to the skull, which makes it unable to move its eyes, and it replaced that by moving her head in a semicircular motion.
- Other somethings you might not know about the owl :
* The owl sees distant objects while it cannot see nearby objects.
* There is a kind of owl that eats 1000 mice in a year.
* Owl unlike other birds, she has three eyelids.
* The young owl begins to fly at the age of seven months
* The longest owl is about half a meter long
* The owl was King Ramses' favorite bird, but it almost hit his eye with its wings and got mad at it. And while all that spreads among the people that owls bring misery are just fables that have no validity.
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