Sentences with phrase «eastern screech owls»
We had a mating pair of adorable little Eastern screech owls on loan from a zoo.
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New Yorks Urban Park Rangers also released 24 eastern screech owls (Otus asio) in Central Park between 1998 and 2002, and two fledglings hatched this spring, offspring of the reintroduced birds.
Eastern screech owls hunt almost exclusively at night, using a more passive approach than many other owls: they sit in the low branches of a tree waiting for prey to pass below and then pounce!
The eastern screech owl does not build a nest but instead inhabits hollows or cavities in trees, using the naturally occurring layer of feathers and debris from her previous meals as a lining on which to lay her eggs.