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If you don't know much about screech owls and you want to learn about eastern screech owls then you should read my research project.


Eastern screech owls are very agile. They also have brownish and white hues. Female eastern screech owls are fatter than the males. Eastern screech owls also have piercing yellow eyes. Their length is 7-9 inches. I would say that's alot bigger than the other species of screech owls. Their wing span is 18-24 inches. They weigh about 59 ounces.

The Species of the Screech Owl
There are many species of screech owls. Here are some of them: Western, Balasas, Pacific, Koepacks, West Peruvian, Bare Shanks, Bearded, Rufescent, Colombian, Cinnamon, Cloud Forest, Tawny Bellied, Guatemalon.

The Habitats that the Eastern Screech Owl Relies On
An eastern screech owl lives in woodlands and in clearings. They live in woodlands and clearings because the woodlands are enriched with prey like, squirrels and birds. They live in clearings so they can find things like rabbits and mice. They eat like a Barn owl.

﻿What the Eastern Screech Owl Eats to Survive
Eastern screech owls eat a variety of foods. They are carnivores. They eat insects, small birds, reptiles and small mammals like mice, rabbits, squirrels and maybe moles. That's the biggest variety I've ever researched!

How the Eastern Screech Owl Hunts for Food to feed on
Eastern screech owls like hunting in areas with places with trees. The trees need hollows. The trees need hollows so a screech owl knows that there is a source of prey. Eastern screech owls swoop from the sky and grab the animal with its talons off of tree branches and then it uses its beak and with a snap the animal is ready to eat. Then the screech owl brings the animal to its nest. If the eastern screech owl wants a smaller bird, it will grab the smaller bird in mid air and use its talons and brings the bird to its den.

﻿﻿The only Enemy
Eastern screech owls don't have many enemies. Their only enemies are hawks. I think the hawks use their talons to claw at the owl and knocks it out of the air in a air battle. On a regular battle not in air I think a hawk will do the same and use twigs and branches as a weakness to the eastern screech owl. It will also probobly use the easern screech owl as prey.

To attract Females
In the winter season eastern screech owls build nests from abandoned nests that attracts females.

I hope you learned about screech owls. This was fun to write this nonfiction passage. Eastern screech owls are a good topic to research. Thank you for reading my passage. My main recorce was Wikipedia.