Snowy owl group 1

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Snowy owl group 1
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Snowy Owl Size

• In winter they are camouflaged in the snow.
• The female is darker than the male, their white
  feathers have brown marks.
• Adult males are almost pure white in colour.

Length 53-65 cm 21-26 cm
Wingspan 140-170 cm 60-66 cm
Weight 1300 g 2900 grams 40-100 ounces
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Snowy Owl Face

• They have nostrils to breathe
• The eye color is yellow
• The owls eyes are large, they can see well in
  the dark and see small prey.

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Snowy Owl Ears

• Large eyes are surrounded by disks of stiff
  feathers. This reflects sound waves to their ear
  openings.
• Their excellent hearing allows them to hear
  prey in the dark.
• Their ears are from the top of the skull to the
  top eyes. Even though you cant see any ears on
  the owls head it does have them.
• The ears are small and one is higher than the
  other. This helps them hear better when a mouse
  steps on a twig.
• Yes they have ear tuffs but they are smaller,
  barely noticeable.

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Snowy Owl Hunting

• -The Mother stays at the nest and the father
  hunts for food.
• They hunt at dusk and dawn but the snowy owl will
  sometimes hunt in the day light.
• -They use a wait style when hunting
• -Snowy owls mostly eat at night after they hunt.
• -Their talons help the owl to keep a strong grip
  on the squirming prey.

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What do Snowy Owls Eat?

• -Snowy Owls do not eat their babies and mate if
  their really hungry
• -Snowy owl mostly eat fish, insects, lemmings,
  voles, rabbits, waterfowl, birds, and Ground
  Squirrels
• -They usually eat about 1600 lemming in a year.

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How do they eat?

• -It has strong stomach juices which dissolves the
  edible parts of food.
• The undigested parts (fur, claws, beaks, bones,
  etc) are formed into a pellet.

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Pellets

• -About 8 hours after eating they will cough up a
  dry pellet.
• -Inside a pellet are bones, teeth, and fur.

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Where Snowy Owls Live

• Northern Canada, northern USA . It depends on the
  lemming population. Move to the arctic during
  breeding season in February. Aortic tundra or
  open grass lands and fields. Owls live all over
  the world in the tundra, forests, grass lands and
  deserts. From tree line to northern limited of
  Canada prefer high rolling tundra with tall
  points of land..

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Snowy Owls Nest

• They nest on the ground , in an area with good
  visibility and close to hunting areas . They may
  use an abandoned eagles nest

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Snowy owls eggs

• Baby snowy owls cant lay eggs. The female snowy
  owl can lay up to10 eggs in a year but sometimes
  if they are not enough lemmings the snowy owl
  will not breed at all. Snowy owls lay pure white
  eggs in spring time. The eggs hatch one by one
  over the time of a month. The egg tooth falls off
  shortly after the baby gets
• out of the egg.

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Snowy owl food

• The mom and dad brings there first meal to the
  baby owl. The baby snowy owl eats the food that
  their parents bring them.

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Snowy owls parents

• In eight weeks the baby owl are ready to fly off
  and search for food on their own. Snowy owl
  parents are very protective of their young baby
  owls. Both parents teach the young baby owls to
  hunt. The male hunts for the female. The mom
  rips up the prey to feed to the young.

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Snowy owls babies

• They have fluffy white down feathers. They
  quickly grow a dark gray coat of down. When they
  are 10 days old they are almost black. Snowy owl
  young are covered with fluffy white down the look
  like a cuddly panda. The young are not asleep
  when they are born. They aren't asleep but their
  eyes are shut. They can fly in eight weeks.

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Group members

• FaithDiet
• KassandraDiet
• JadaHabitat
• MercedesApperance
• JessicaYoung

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Sources of Information

• Owls Author Adrienne Mason
• www.hww.ca/hwww2asp?id76
• http//www.env.gov.nl.ca/snp/Animals/snowy_owl.htm
  
• http//www.tundraanimals.net/tundraanimals/snowyow
  l.html
• http//www.peregrinefund.org/Explore_Raptors/owls/
  snowyowl.html
• http//www.conservationcentre.org/scase1.html
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/pr
  intouts/Snowyowlprintout.shtml

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