Pygmy owls facts

 Silly pygmy owls facts

1. Pygmies are the smallest of all birds and weigh only a few ounces, but they have an incredible sense of hearing that allows them to find food even in dense undergrowth.

2. They are also very agile and can climb trees with ease.

3. Their eyesight is so good that they can see small movements on the ground below them even when it's dark!

4. The pygmy owl is the most endangered bird species in the world. It has been hunted almost to extinction and there are just 200 left in the wild.

5. The owls are nocturnal, but they sleep during the day entwined together in a ball. They move around while sleeping to avoid predators.

6. Pygmy owls are not as soft as other owls and have a harder head with talons instead of feet.

7. Even though they are so small, pygmy owls can produce a loud croaking sound. It is used mainly to warn other birds or mammals that it might be predator.

8. The pygmy owl has a very different hunting technique from other birds. It sits on a branch and leans forward, using its sharp talons to pluck insects off the branches below.

9. Pygmy owls are not only found in the jungles of South America, but they also live on the islands of Trinidad and Margarita in the Caribbean.

10. The pygmy owl is one of the few animals that is able to see in the infra-red range.


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• Pygmy owls have a simple taste in decoration. They use leaves to make a brown and yellow patterned band around their eyes to make them visible in the dark.


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• The Bolivian Cochrane has found that some owls' hearing is so good that they can detect the movement of a particle in a single pollen grain.


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• Owls have unique eyes. The eye of an owl has a third eyelid, so when an owl is sleeping in cloudy weather, raindrops fall into the eye and don't notice them!


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• Many people think that owls are nocturnal animals, but in fact they are only active at night. They sleep during the day


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• The word "owl" comes from the ancient Celtic tribes of Northern England and Ireland, who called them ulek. The modern word "owl" is from the Anglo place name Owlpen, which dates from the 13th century.


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• The largest known owl was probably the Argentavis magnificens, a bird that lived in Argentina. Evidence suggests that it could reach a height of 9.5 feet (3.1 meters) and had a wingspan of 12 feet (3.7 meters). An arm of bone was found with one of these birds, and it is clear that this animal was eaten by Early Man.


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• The smallest known owl is the pygmy owl. It only grows up to 6.5 inches (17.1 centimeters) in length and has a wingspan of 3.5 inches (9.0 centimeters).


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• The spectacled owl has a very unusual way of hunting its prey. It hovers like a humming bird over streams and rivers, dropping water on the prey beneath it!


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• The pygmy owl is named after the tiny pygmy people of the forests where it lives.


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• Owls, especially the typical owls such as the barn, the tawny and the great, are popular in the many superstitions and myths of many cultures.


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• In the folk tales of many cultures, owls are often symbols of wisdom and power. In the Native American culture, for example, owls are symbols of the moon, in the Apache culture they are symbols of death and in Scandinavian mythology they are symbols of the goddess of love.


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These are just some of the amazing things you can find in nature! Let's study it more.


By now you have learned about pygmy owls facts, unfortunately most of them are not bogus facts.


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