Tom stood in his backyard, hooting like an owl - and one night, an owl finally called back to him. For a year, the man and his feathered friend hooted back and forth. Just as he thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough in interspecies communication, his wife had a chat with her next door neighbor. So does my husband. The shadow bird always builds a 3-room nest.
Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward.
A pair of nesting barn owls is capable of catching and eating nearly 3,000 rats a year. To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day. If the great horned owl were to be totally stripped of its feathers, the naked bird would weigh less than its feathers. Especially when it comes to pint-size thieves in fur coats, otherwise known as squirrels. An adult crow needs 11 ounces of food each day.