Great horned owl By Julia Sagen Animal Facts

Great horned owl By: Julia Sagen

Animal Facts Description The great horned owl is white, brown, and black. The great horned owl can go from 6 -24 inches and 15 -61 centimeters. The great horned owl weighs 2 -25 pounds. Diet The great horned owl is a carnivore, it eats: bunnys, mice, fogs, and scorpions! A pic showing your animal. Movement The great horned owl flys. It is not very heavy so it can fly easily. When it catches it’s food mostly at night. It has to do it quietly, then it swoops down fore the attack!

Habitat Map showing where your animal lives Picture showing your animal in its habitat. The great horned owls are adaptable birds and live from the artic to south America, plus woods and farmlands it is cold, warm, dry, and a little wet

Life Cycle Great horned owls have babies from eggs. Thair are 1 -12 eggs. It can take up to 5 -6 weeks for them to hatch. The mom usually takes care of the babies for 2 -3 mounths. Babies are called owlets! A picture of the animal as a grown/ mature animal. A picture of the animal as a baby or young. Adults only mate when having babies. When they mate they go and come back to each other. The men go and women stay with the eggs. The babies do NOT look like the parents. They live for 20 -25 years.

Animal Interactions The great horned owl protects itself by with the trees and it also hides inside of the trees. It can communicate with other owls by hooting to each other. Its predators are humans themselves!!! This is an example of a great horned owls biggest predator. (Human) Pic of enemy, predator, prey, etc. Pic of animal adaptation that allows it to protect itself You can barely see the great horned owl in the tree!!! There are more predators for the great horned owl but the great horned owl does defend itself pretty good. Its camouflage does protect itself very well. The other predators they have are tigers, lions, and bears.

Interesting Facts Day and night Great horned owls sleep during the night and hunt during the day because they have great eye sight in the night and not during the day. A pic to accompany fact #1 A pic to accompany fact #2 swallowing The great horned owl can swallow the food they eat whole but they need to take three bites. The biggest food they can swallow whole is a adult bunny! The bigger one Did you know the female great horned owl is bigger than the male great horned owl. Know one knows why! A pic to accompany fact #3