If your kids are obsessed with owls, then you’ll definitely want to check out this list of Facts About Owls. Owls are fascinating creatures, with so many interesting characteristics that your kids will love to discover. Your kids are sure to find some new owl facts that they can’t wait to share with their friends.

Owls are incredible birds. An owl recently made a nest in one of our neighbor’s trees. My kids were full of questions. We spent so much time looking up owls facts and learning as much as we could about them. Facts are some of their favorite things to memorize, constantly showing off at the grocery store or school. This list of facts about owls will come in handy when your kids want to show off all their knowledge about these incredible birds.
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We love introducing our kids to facts because it allows them to always have something interesting to tell someone. They make perfect ice breakers and are a great way to connect with new friends when they are just getting to know one another.
Facts About Owls

- There is over 200 species of owls
- Owls are nocturnal (meaning they are more lively at night)
- Owls have binocular vision
- Owls have binaural hearing
- Owls are silent flyers

- Owls have incredible hearing
- It is their feathers that help them be silent flyers
- Fun fact: not all owls hoot.
- Some owls stay close to the ground
- Their eyeballs are tube shaped and are immobile allow full focus and boosts their depth perception

- Owls can turn they neck turn their necks to 270 degrees
- Owls eat more insects, small mammals and small birds
- Their claws are called talons
- Their talons help them catch their prey (their food)
- Owls are symbolic for wisdom, change and good luck

- Their eyes can pinpoint their prey in seconds and help them have hyper focus to be able to catch them
- Owls senses are much stronger than ours
- Owls hunt for their food at night
- Owls can hoot to protect their territory
- Owls have super hearing

- Owls can swallow their prey whole
- They throw up the indigestible bits ( you can dissect them!)
- Owls do eat other owls
- Owls know their strongest baby and will feed that one first
- Owls are scared of loud noises (alarms, horn, whistles)

- Owls can live anywhere from 4 years to 15 years.
- 70% of owls die in the first year of their life
- Owls hoot to others owls to warn them of danger
- The burrowing owl is only pint size.
- They can swivel their toes

- Barn owls swallow their prey whole, bones and all.
- Owls are one of the smartest bird species
- Owls have asymmetrical ears
- They are very curious animals
- Owls are very logical creatures

- They are naturally deep thinkers
- They have powerful legs
- Owls have four talons
- One of their talons can rotate like a human thumb.
- They have hooked beaks

- Their hearing is one of the best
- Captive owls still act on their natural instincts
- Most owls prefer not to be petted or cuddled
- The tawny owl is the loudest owl that can shriek and hoot
- Owls can not smell and rely a lot on their vision

- Owls are associated with supernatural abilities
- Barn owls mate for life
- Owls will go back to their same nest
- Owls, when in a relationship, make courtship rituals (flights, calls to one another etc)
- Owls offer each other food when together.

- Owls create bonds with their mates
- Night time is used mostly for hunting food.
- Owls do not have teeth
- Owls use their hooked beaks break and hold their prey.
- Owls crush the skulls of their prey

- Owls will hoot a specific way to call their mate to communicate.
- Owls do cry. It is more of a scream they a cry though (whistles, barks, shrieks)
- Owls can hiss
- Owls express love through cheek rubbing and bill fencing
- Owls flirt by giving the other owl dead mice and screeching

- Owls have correlation to the afterlife.
- Owls are very talkative birds. They enjoy communicating.
- Owls are self aware.
- Owls can recognize themselves in the mirror (barn owls)
- Owls when threaten the become slimmer and pull themselves in tightly and will stand straight up.

- Owls see in limit color.
- Owls incubate their eggs anywhere from 30 – 37 days
- When owls mate dies, the other will stay in their home territory and wait for another mate
- Owls claim territories
- Owls will not breed if there is not enough food for that year

- Owls lay anywhere from one to fourteen eggs
- Owls do sleep standing up
- Owls favorite shelter is a hollow trees
- Owls sleep around a total of 12 hours a day
- They often sleep in short naps through the day to keep the recharge

- Owls are zygodactyl
- Owls never lose their hearing
- Owls can hears higher frequencies, higher than any human and most animals can hear
- Owls can swim but prefer not to
- When angry, owls let out a clacking sound by snapping their beak together

- Owls can and do play dead when stressed out
- Great horn owls’ weight capacity is about five pounds for picking up their prey
- Owls are known to take cats, small dogs and chickens.
- Owls cannot fly if their wings get wet
- Owls can see during the day time

- Owls keep one eye closed to block out light
- You will start seeing more baby owls around April and May
How many fascinating facts about owls can you come up with off the top of your head? Do you know more owl facts than we missed? Add them in the comments so we can add them to the list!
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