Great Gray Owl

The Great gray owl is characteristic of getting a puffy head, yellow eyes, and a circular facial discs. it's one in all the most important owls within the world and has a very long tail. The plume of this hooter is extremely downlike and thickly feathered with grey or brown. The face encompasses a white hair below the facial disc. The feet area unit fully lined by feathers. the good gray hooter is that the provincial bird of Manitoba, Canada.

This hooter is found in Alaska and across Canada, within the Northern Rocky Mountains, Minnesota, northern Europe and Asia. They board wooded areas like cone-bearing and spruce forests. They usually breed in coniferous tree and red fir forests within the Sierra Nevada. they sometimes hunt and forage within the late morning and late afternoon in swamps, bogs and areas with scattered trees and shrubs. This species of hooter migrates to estuaries, and mountain meadows, among others wherever it will hunt smaller mammals like mice, voles, chipmunks, and others.

They nest in forests in nests fabricated from sticks that were once occupied by hawks, ravens or crows, and generally on mistletoe shrubs. They line their nests with needles from trees, deer hair, nonvascular plant and bark. They lay 2-5 eggs. whereas eggs area unit incubating, the male brings food to the feminine. they're aggressive over their nests. they will live up to forty years aged. Threats embody starvation, predation by nice bicornate owls and generally wolverines and human-induced death, as well as shooting, road kill and electrocutions by wires.