Western screech owl
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The scientific name for this bird of prey is otus kennicottii
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What makes a bird of prey a bird of prey is it has sharp talons hooked beaks and hunts live
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What makes my bird of prey a bird of prey is sharp talons hooked beaks and hunts live prey
The western screech owls size is 21cm and wing span is 56 cm weight is 6.5 oz
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The western screech owl hunts mice flying bugs and other small rodents it hunts during the
night it uses, nose, ears for very accurate hunting
The western screech owls babies are 28 days old when they take there first flight not very good
flying but can still fly
The babies are born is dead or live tree trunks
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The western screech owls habitat is on the western side of the us manly in CA CO UH
Its migrates to the eastern side of the USA the western screech owl lives in trees
DDT
• Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
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DDT is a kind of poison it was not discovered tell 1939 it was used in world war 2
Used to kill misquotes
DDT is bad for all birds but birds of prey were effected the most
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The western screech owls enemies are hunter, building, and larger birds of prey
The golden eagle is the most dingiest bird of prey for the western screech owl
Man made things are very dangers for all birds
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This bird of prey is doing very good in the world but the population is unknown
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Screech owls are on of the most common owls is the USA the western screech owl dose not
screech just makes the normal owl sound it also eats birds the hunting strategy is they wait
On a branch the swoop down to kill there prey
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It lives in cactus and holes in trees that is where they have there babies
The bugs the western screech owl eats are grasshoppers
The rodents it eats are mice moles and other rodents