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Snowy Owl (Bubo Scandicacus)

You may not think Snowy Owls aren't interesting, but once you've read this, you'll think these owls are so cool that you would want one for a pet to play with! You may find very much fun facts and how they survive in this report. The Snowy Owl is a beatuiful owl, it is mostly all white with roundish head, the Snowy Owl has yellow eyes and a black bill. The Owls feet is heavily fluffy with white feathers. The female owl is usally around, say, about a foot tall. While the male is about a foot tall too but it's a few centimeters shorter. The Snowy Owls are very very active from dusk to dawn. They have very short flights and when they fly they like to stay close to the ground. The Owls are very aggresive when it comes to guarding a nest, they really don't want their babies hurt. The male voice is harsh,loud, and grating bark while the females is a high pictched call. Males have a loud booming "hoo hoo" when giving a mating call. Females "kruff-guh-guh-guk" for mating calls. They also make the sounds like, shrieks,hissing, and bill snapping. When hunting they do it in a certain style. It's called the "sit and wait" style. They do this by sitting and when they spot their prey, they would either, snatch the prey with their talons or if the prey is smaller they grab it with their beaks. The animal that it's trying to eat will most likely to run or hop while the Owl will fly to catch it. Once the animal gets tired, the animal will just give up and they know the owl will always win. Then once their a little bit more calm the owl will swoop down and get dig it's sharp claws inside the body, and the claws will peirce through the skin and then the owl will fly up taking the animal with it and bring it someone it''s safe to eat it. The owl will eat, mice, hares, rabbits, muskrats, mamots, squirrels,prarie dogs, rats, and moles. The Snowy Owl can live up to 9 years in the wild, but if it's not living in the wild it lives around up to 35 years in capacity. The natural enemies is the Artic Foxes, Wolves, Skuas, and Jaguars because they might eat or hurt their babies. You will usally find an owl in the Artic Tudnra, or open grass lands, marshes, marine coastlines, and lakeshores. Their most likely living in North America, Alvetan Islands, Northern Alaska, Canda, and the Artic. So now do you think the Snowy Owls are interesting? I bet you do.