Owl Research Station
The northern-saw-whet-owl has a cat like face, yellow beady eyes and has a very tiny body. When we were inside a small building someone had found a saw-whet-owl. saw-whet-owls are so small that they are able to fit in a orange juice container. Female saw-whet-owls choose the nesting spot ¾ of the time and males choose the nesting spot for ¼ of the time. We were there for about 2-3 hours. We got to see an owl named Crash he is the same species of owl that had been hit by a car. Now Crash is blind in one eye. Crash is the same species of owl but behaves differently after being hit by a car and does not like to be touched very much by humans. Northern saw-whet-owls
migration is very poorly understood. Female saw-whet-owls are the ones who keeps the nest clean and mainly takes care of the whole place. Even though the
female saw-whet-owl cleans the nest often it still gets very messy and unclean very fast and she will half to clean it again. They snap their beak when they are nervous too! In 1999 a saw-whet-owl landed on a vessel
70 miles from the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. The oldest saw-whet-owl was 9 years old 5 months when it was captured and released by a bird bander soon after it was captured. The main things saw-whet-owls eat is mice mainly deer mice. The saw-whet-owl got its name of the saw-whet-owl because one of their calls sounds like a saw sawing a board.
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