Category: FaunaFacts

The great horned owl does not disturb the balance of nature.

There is a low percentage of infertility in great horned owl eggs.

Any white moving object is likely to attract the attention of the great horned owl and bring on an attack.

Great horned owls sometimes line their nests with feathers and fur from prey birds and rabbits.

The great horned owl's speed, weight, and muscular power all combine to give the bird the force to overcome animals many times its own weight.

Great horned owls nest in almost every type of situation in which birds nest, a range of variation unequaled by any other North American bird.

The great horned owl often has a regular feeding roost, to which it brings its prey to be torn up and devoured.

The primary function of great horned owl hooting is to attract a mate.

Hearing is exceedingly acute in great horned owls.

There may be a direct correlation between the number of great horned owl eggs and the abundance of food.

Great horned owls have yet to be tamed and seldom make satisfactory pets.

The great horned owl is strictly carnivorous and eats almost every living woodland animal above ground except the largest mammals.

The great horned owl is not only the most formidable in appearance of all owls, but it is also the most powerful.

The great horned owl's talons lock round limbs and hold the bird firmly to sleep.

A secondary function of a great horned owl's hooting is its challenge to others of his sex.

The great horned owl is common and widely distributed.

Certain indigenous tribes regarded the great horned owl as the very personification of the Evil One.

The great horned owl is the largest of the common resident owls of the United States.

Great horned owls have been known to act as if wounded as a protest against intruders to their nests with young.