V. L. N. students thoroughly enjoyed a presentation given by the Orphanwd Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (O.W.L.) which included an onsite, face to face visit with two birds of prey---a falcon and a barred owl. Carrie, from O. W. L., shared a great deal of interesting information with us and brought in various other items of interest which included a mouse skeleton retrieved from an owl pellet, tallons from a barred owl and a skeletal head of a barred owl. Those of you who attended were probably as surprised as I to learn that a barred owl has up to 10,000 feathers!
We covered a great deal of information, some of which included answers to the following:
-why owls are difficult to see during the day
-why people should not litter on or near a highway
-what an owl pellet is and what may be inside one
-what nocturnal means
-what tallons are used for
-what tallons are used for
-how beaks are used
It was a fascinating session!
Those of you who attended, please write one interesting fact that you learned about the birds of prey in the comment section. Those of you who were unable to attend, check out the following site for information on a few birds of prey and then contribute one fact to the comment section.
3 comments:
I liked to see the barred owl fly or flap its wings.
by nl
It is amazing that bald eagles can make a nest so big.
Sebastian
isn't 76cm tall for an egel.
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