Owl ear tufts are tufts of feathers that stick out of an owl's head that look like ears. They are not ears, they are feathers. An owl's ears are near it's eyes, at the center of the bowls of feathers making up its face.
The screech owl has ear tufts.
Owl ear tufts are tufts of feathers that stick out of an owl's head that look like ears. They are not ears, they are feathers. An owl's ears are near it's eyes, at the center of the bowls of feathers making up its face.
They are called "ear tufts" It isn't really known why some Owl species have ear tufts. The two popular theories of why some Owls have ear tufts are: That the tufts might help provide a given owl with a distinctive silhouette, thereby allowing other owls to help recognise members of their own species by sight. That some Owl species erect their ear tufts when alarmed by approaching danger (while at the same time adopting a vertically elongate body shape different from their more rotund resting pose), it's been suggested that ear tufts help break up the owl's outline and make it appear more like a broken branch.
Like in the French vocabulary, you could say there are two big groups. The ones with ear tufts, like the Eagle Owl, and the ones without ear tufts, such as the Little Owl.
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The screech owl fits that description.
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The screech owl.