All owls are predators, which means they depend on other animals for food.
But very few predators feed on owls. In fact, owls often eat other predators, such as weasels, bats, shrews and insect-eating birds. Therefore, owls hold a position at the top of the food chain. Like many predators, they feed from more than one link on the chain. Because most species hunt at night, owls feed upon a different group of prey species than raptors that hunt by day.