Owl

📖 In short

The owl is the bird of the night! It sleeps by day and comes out when it gets dark to hunt mice and insects. It has a round face and big eyes that look forward, like yours. People call it “the garden's night guard” because it rids fields of rodents.

🤩 Did you know?

The smallest owl is only about 15 centimeters long.
The wings of some big owls stretch about 150 centimeters.
The white snowy owl lives in cold regions near the North Pole.
In many kinds of owl, the female is bigger than the male.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 Turning its head

An owl can't move its eyes, so it turns its head instead. It can turn it so far that it can see almost behind itself!

🔍 Amazing ears

An owl's hearing is very strong: it can hear a tiny mouse moving under leaves or snow in the dark, and know exactly where it is.

💡 Silent flight

The edges of an owl's feathers are soft like a comb, making its flight so quiet it can't be heard. So it gets close to its prey without being noticed.

🎯 Strange little pellets

An owl swallows small prey whole, then coughs up a little pellet of the bones and fur it couldn't digest. Scientists study these pellets to find out what owls eat.