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Northern Hawk Owl
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The Northern Hawk Owl, also known as the Canadian Owl or Hudsonian Hawk Owl, is one of the few members of its family that are active during the day. Along with its diurnal habits, this medium-sized owl resembles a hawk in many other ways. Its long tail and flight style – a fast, agile mix of flaps and glides – is reminiscent of a Cooper's Hawk; it perches in the open atop tall trees like a Red-tailed Hawk; and it often hovers as it hunts, like an American Kestrel. • Still, the Northern Hawk Owl is definitely an owl – albeit an unusual one – with the large head, piercing yellow-orange eyes, and a radar-dish facial disk characteristic of its family. The sexes look alike, mottled dark brown above and white with dark barring below. Its legs are feathered all the way down to the talons, an adaptation to a life in cold weather. Like other birds living in far northern regions, such as the Snowy Owl, it has no fear of people and can appear remarkably tame, often allowing observers to approach closely. • Several of the Northern Hawk Owl's physical features reflect its unusual daytime lifestyle. • How has this atypical owl adapted to non-nocturnal living? • Find out here: https://abcbirds.org/bird/northern-ha... • Video credits: mc coburn and Daniel Jauvin/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (290067361and 401626651) • --------------------------------------------------------------------- • -Hunting Below the Snow- • The Northern Hawk Owl feeds chiefly on small rodents, particularly voles, but will also take shrews, lemmings, Snowshoe Hares, and squirrels. It also preys on small- to mid-sized birds up to the size of grouse or ptarmigan. • Although the Northern Hawk Owl lacks the asymmetrical ear openings that give nocturnal owls pinpoint accuracy while hunting, it is still a skilled predator with exceptional hearing. Snow cover is no deterrent to this keen hunter – it can hear prey moving under up to a foot of snow and readily plunges into the snow feet-first to catch it. It favors a sit and wait hunting strategy, scanning for prey from a high, exposed perch, then swooping down to catch it. Northern Hawk Owls also hunt by flying low over the ground as they search for food, hovering briefly above their prey before dropping down on it in a deadly pounce.
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