Owls – Risk and Protection
With the exception of the adaptive Tawny owl European owl species are endangered in their existence more or less strong, the short-eared owl in many areas even in danger of extinction. This is due to changes in the cultural landscape that may have the effect of food resources for the owls withdrawal. Here, the owls by forest management or governance of the land management such as promotion of weeds on fallow land, reduction of fertilizer use on wet and dry meadows or to help the resumption of grazing to develop an easily accessible earthworm population. The creation of a varied, structured by landscape planting of hedgerows, pollarded willows and avenues may benefit some species of owls in their inventory. In some cases, especially in severe winters, the plant can...
Owls in mythology and folklore
The owl releases in our fascination and fear simultaneously. She was revered and feared, admired and followed. She is a symbol of good and evil. The owl is therefore in myth, folklore and symbolism of all peoples and all time periods in many contradictory and superstitious images dar. Owls are different from other birds by the rigid forward-looking Augen.Da they also eyelids – like people – can go from top to bottom over the eyeball, her face appears to us very humanely. The owl fascinates us so much. Since they are similar, we attribute to it a part of our own intelligence and wisdom so. The owl is so often depicted sitting as a symbol of wisdom, with cap and gown, or at books. Many schools, universities, libraries, bookstores and book publishers have...
Courtship, nesting and raising young owls
Courtship display The breeding season begins with the courtship of owls. The night calls of the male in the early spring are used to attract the female and the district boundaries. For some sedentary species of owls, e.g. Tawny Owl, Ural Owl and Pygmy Owl begins, the district boundary even in late autumn. Since it is usually fairly long time before the young are independent, the breeding business begins in nearly all species of owls relatively early in the year, partly in March, the owl often as early as February. Breeding and raising young Owls do not build their own nests. Owl, boreal owl, pygmy owl, scops owl and hawk, and originally the barn owl nest exclusively in caves. Tawny owl, great gray owl and Ural owl nest mostly in caves, sometimes openly. The other...
See – day and night
So even in low light or owls can hunt prey, their eyes are extremely sensitive to light and huge. They take about one-third of the owls head. If we had a similar sized human eyes, they would have to be as big as apples. The large eyes of owls need a broad skull. They are fixed rigidly to the front, what they particularly like the spatial view comes. The associated small field of view of only 60 – 70 degrees is balanced by the possibility of rotation of the head by up to 270 degrees. With a head rotation to the right can see an owl on the left shoulder. This mobility is made possible by 14 neck vertebrae. By comparison, all other vertebrates have only seven neck vertebrae. Typical of all owls is also a lateral oscillation, circles and swings of the head and...
Owls – Hunters of the Night
What distinguishes the owls by other birds and makes them appear to us so special? The owls and screech owls are an independent group of birds (Strigiformes), which occurs with currently about 220 different species known all over the world and its phylogenetically very old does. Despite the outward similarity is no close relationship with the birds of prey. The systematics of the owls, the nightjars are closest of which is found in Europe only one species, the goat milker. In normal parlance, a distinction between owls and queer people. As “owls” are in this subdivision, the owls with ears (“owls” with ear tufts), whereas the owls are named without ears “oddballs”. This classification is true but not in the snowy owl and the...
Owls in Athen
Owls are an order of birds. This includes 140 species. They are to be found anywhere in the world, except Antarctica. As nocturnal animals, they have adapted especially the nocturnal activities. Within the two families of owls, the owls and the owls are actually different. It is believed that the earliest owls showed up at the end of the Cretaceous period about 65 million years ago. The earliest documented owls are from the period before 65 to 40 million years ago. The oldest known species is from the Paleocene of Colorado (USA) have been found. Owls have a typical shape: the head is round, the eyes directed forward, the body is penetrated, the beak strongly curved and sharp-edged. Owls eyes are very sensitive to light, color vision is not well developed and the...
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