Talk:Great horned owl

message: Sources for South America and for five hoots: <http://www.owlpages.com/species/bubo/virginianus/Default.htm>, Peterson's field guide, personal experience.  --JerryFriedman 22:50, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Sourcing

message: How long do these birds live in the wild?  --Jimaynard 15:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longevity of Great Horned Owls 

message: I dimly recall reading, long, long ago, that it is not at all unusual for these owls to kill domestic cats and even occasionally small foxes. I have no cite and probably won't find one. Anybody? -- Writtenonsand (talk) 13:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: May kill cats (and foxes)?

message: Shouldn't that read dusk and dawn.  Not that I'm saying it's not hunting in the middle of the night, but I'd say in non-urban, non-artificially lit settings dusk and dawn would be the most active phases. 71.236.26.74 (talk) 06:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Hunting at night?

message: Following up on comment (top of page) by Forpeterssake.  
As a starting point for a discussion of owls' hearing depth perception, we should take a look at the research of Masakazu Konishi.  A brain map of auditory space [for owls] and How do owls localize interaurally phase-ambiguous signals? The relevant terms in physiology appear to be sound localization and binaural fusion.  NinetyNineFennelSeeds (talk) 14:37, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hearing depth perception 

message: The section on their calls is very unsatisfactory. First of all it doesn't do justice to the variety of calls they make, or the distinct difference between male in female calls (the typically male and female calls, are an entirely different pattern of syllables not merely a matter of the one being higher and rising at the end). 
The "ho-ho-hoo hoo hoo" it cites could conceivably be intended as either the typical female call or male call, though the two are quite different, and it seems to me a truer approximation of the female call (the typical male call is harder to convey with human speech syllables because of the rapidity of some of the initial syllables). However in either case, it is quite common for this call to be six or even more syllables where as the text indicates only 5 sometimes 4. (Here's a sample of the typical female call, which matches what I've heard: 4 short syllables and 2 long: ) 
I also don't find "ho" a very good way to convey a short hoo sound. One would read "ho" as the same sound as in the word "show", as opposed to the sound in the word "shoe", and even the short syllables are clearly a hoo noise not a ho. 
I'm not enough of an owl expert to feel comfortable rewriting this section, but I can only hope some expert will tend to it at some point.--Ericjs (talk) 23:39, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So fix it! Eeekster (talk) 23:44, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calls 

message: How do people feel about adding the following?
"In comparison with the endangered owls, the great horned owl is a generalist, meaning it hunts a wide variety of prey.  Great horned owls share habitat with the barn owl and short-eared owl and also prey upon voles.  However, they also catch a variety of rabbits, gophers and mice."p. 61 Owls by Rebecca O'Connor. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Lucent Books, 2003   (In case you can't read the footnote, here it is again: p. 61 Owls by Rebecca O'Connor. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Lucent Books, 2003.)
I shall wait several days for a reaction.  If there isn't one, then I shall tentatively add this passage.  Thanks for your attention. Earththings (talk) 19:34, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Whether to add something to 'Food and feeding behavior'

message: I came to this article to see if there was an overview of the GHO as a symbol in human culture (symbology, mythology) throughout the Americas. I don't know if this has been a subject of edit warring, but here's my vote for such a section, properly sourced, especially if someone has already written it, only to see it deleted. If such a subject is too large for this article, then it should be a separate article, with a link in the (missing) == See also == section. --Lexein (talk) 12:26, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing sections 

message: I think I agree with the "overly detailed" tag. The detail  inserted last July is great stuff, but is way too detailed. It could be split off into another article to great advantage. --jpgordon::==( o ) 04:59, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overly detailed 

message: The article currently is stuffed with sentences and passages copied from another, non-free source (). Please have a look at what the copyvio detector spits out . As the article is too detailed anyway, I propose to give it a good pruning and re-formulating in the next few days to get rid of these issues.-- Elmidae (talk) 07:56, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you read the bottom of that "non-free source" page? It says "Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia." Hard to tell which, with that kind of attribution! I'd suggest that Jungle Dragon's text might come from Wikipedia, rather than the other way around. There is nothing on that website that says anything about who writes it or where they get their information. A large bit appears similar to a Chinese NGO website which has used Wikipedia text. I'd suggest your tag may not be appropriate! MeegsC (talk) 12:43, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. You are right, I guess there might be some circularity involved. A good pruning is probably still a good thing for the article and I shall carry on with that today - sorry, it did somewhat slip off my plate.-- Elmidae (talk) 10:33, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Large amount of copyvio material 

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thread_title:  "G Horned Owl" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: The website https://greathornedowl.net as found via duckduckgo says:
: "Males weigh up to 3.545 lb while females averaging 2.698 lb."  
This contradicts the text currently in the Physiology and measurements section here, which says the females are larger and the males smaller, with mean body weight
: "1,608 g (3.545 lb) for females and 1,224 g (2.698 lb) for males".  
– Athaenara  ✉  10:15, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size and weight