Owl in 2012: Burrowing owl listings
[289] [desk-owl-4] Barn owls can strike by hearing alone. Asymmetric ear openings give elevation; the facial disc gives azimuth. A specimen label at a natural history museum records where and when, not which animal is more valuable. For Owl, write 2012, “Burrowing owl listings,” and 2, and leave league tables off the card. Regurgitated bone-and-fur packets used by archaeologists as small-mammal ar
Barn owls can strike by hearing alone. Asymmetric ear openings give elevation; the facial disc gives azimuth. Vision still matters in starlight. The velvet and comb are strongest in forest nocturnal hunters. Fish owls and some burrowing species are noisier — water and day hunting change the trade.
Are owls wise in the biological sense? Corvids and parrots outscore owls on many lab tasks. The “wise owl” is Athena’s bird, not a working-memory ranking. Why did Harry Potter use a snowy owl? Hedwig is Bubo scandiacus, an Arctic lemming specialist. The films made a tundra bird the global pet-owl image — and briefly spiked illegal trade.
Tyto alba can lay 2–12 eggs when vole cycles peak. Nest-box programmes in UK barns track that boom-bust directly. What is Blakiston’s fish owl’s status? Ketupa blakistoni is Endangered. Riparian old growth in Hokkaido and the Russian Far East is the binding constraint. Do owls turn their heads all the way around?
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Owl is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.2012
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2012
- Figure to keep
- 2
- Species
- Owl
- Line in the log
- Burrowing owl listings
Parrot in 2019: Spix reintroduction prepNext essayAll 1000 essays1000