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GO the National Geographic Kids website to find out more about OWLS or the ANIMAL your book is about!

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GO the National Geographic Kids website to find out more about OWLS or the ANIMAL your book is about!

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Click on the picture below to go to the website.

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Students will write their own NONFICTION BOOKS about an ANIMAL OF THEIR CHOICE using all the skills they learned when we wrote our CLASS BOOK ABOUT OWLS together!

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We are writing a class book about OWLS as part of our NONFICTION WRITERS WORKSHOP lessons.  Here are the subtopics of our book..

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We are writing a class book about OWLS as part of our NONFICTION WRITERS WORKSHOP lessons.  Here are the subtopics of our book..

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Where Owls Live
What Owls Eat
Owl Babies
Owls Bodies
Interesting Facts About Owls

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We are reading lots of books about OWLS.

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We are reading lots of books about OWLS.

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Check out the OWL CAMERA we've been watching in the classroom.  There are two baby owlets in the next too!
Click below to WATCH THE OWLS LIVE!!

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Perching Branch Falls on Savannah Cam

Unfortunately, the perching branch on the Great Horned Owl Savannah cam cracked and fell under the weight of two Wood Storks on Sunday, August 28. The cam is still live (with a new view) and we plan to continue broadcasting for the moment. Despite the perching branch's fate, the stump of the tree, which holds the owl nest, should remain sound for at least one more year. Click "more" for the video. More...

Owlet #2 Fledges

Owlet #2 on Savannah Owls Cam fledged around 8 PM on Friday, April 22! Both owlets have now left the nest, but they will continue to remain close to the parents and be fed by them through summer.

Nest Placement

Great Horned Owls typically nest in trees such as cottonwood, juniper, beech, pine, and others. They usually adopt a nest that was built by another species, but they also use cavities in live trees, dead snags, deserted buildings, cliff ledges, and human-made platforms. In the Yukon they nest in white spruces with "witches' brooms," which are clumps of dense foliage caused by a fungus. They occasionally nest on the ground. Pairs may roost together near the future nest site for several months before laying eggs.

Nest Description

Nests often consist of sticks and vary widely in size, depending on which species originally built the nest (usually Red-tailed Hawks, other hawk species, crows, ravens, herons, or squirrels). Great Horned Owls may line the nest with shreds of bark, leaves, downy feathers plucked from their own breast, fur or feathers from prey, or trampled pellets. In some areas they add no lining at all. Nests deteriorate over the course of the breeding season, and are seldom reused in later years.

1-4 eggs

30-37 days

42-42 days

Food

Great Horned Owls have the most diverse diet of all North American raptors. Their prey range in size from tiny rodents and scorpions to hares, skunks, geese, and raptors. They eat mostly mammals and birds-especially rabbits, hares, mice, and American Coots, but also many other species including voles, moles, shrews, rats, gophers, chipmunks, squirrels, woodchucks, marmots, prairie dogs, bats, skunks, house cats, porcupines, ducks, loons, mergansers, grebes, rails, owls, hawks, crows, ravens, doves, and starlings. They supplement their diet with reptiles, insects, fish, invertebrates, and sometimes carrion. Although they are usually nocturnal hunters, Great Horned Owls sometimes hunt in broad daylight. After spotting their prey from a perch, they pursue it on the wing over woodland edges, meadows, wetlands, open water, or other habitats. They may walk along the ground to stalk small prey around bushes or other obstacles.

Great Horned Owls advertise their territories with deep, soft hoots with a stuttering rhythm: hoo-h'HOO-hoo-hoo. The male and female of a breeding pair may perform a duet of alternating calls, with the female's voice recognizably higher in pitch than the male's. Young owls give piercing screams when begging for food, while adults may scream to defend the nest. Adults make an array of other sounds, including whistles, barks, shrieks, hisses, coos, and wavering cries. more sounds

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Unfortunately, the perching branch on the Great Horned Owl Savannah cam cracked and fell under the weight of two Wood Storks on Sunday, August 28. The cam is still live (with a new view) and we plan to continue broadcasting for the moment.