Hope for Wildlife: True Stories of Animal Resuce by Ray MacLeod

Author:Ray MacLeod [MacLeod, Ray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781551098784
Amazon: B00KKPB3BK
Publisher: Nimbus
Published: 2014-05-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Because We Can

The job that hawks, eagles, and other diurnal raptors do during the day, owls take care of at night. Most of their diet is small rodents. While the day hunters use speed and eyesight to get their prey, owls rely on silence and acute hearing. Their wings have special feathers on the leading edge that slow their flight but baffle any noise, making them so silent that legends have long linked them to the supernatural. Their hearing is such that a great grey can slip from a perch and crash through a thick snow crust to take an unseen mouse in a tunnel. Most common in Nova Scotia is the barred owl. These owls stalk the fringes of our highways, especially in winter when scurrying food all too often distracts them from speeding vehicles.

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