Birds of Prey

Yes.

Personally I would say "No". But I think the honest answer is that we just don't know. And begs the question: "What do you mean by a "raptor"?" Do you mean a bird, a predator with a hooked bill for tearing flesh and strong, piercing talons for grabbing and holding prey? Or are you thinking of something you saw in the cinema, a T-rex maybe? A giant flesh eating dinosaur. And are they in fact the same?

The finding, describing, classifying of birds (or any organisms) is called "Taxonomy" and is still an evolving process. Historically a lot of biologists would have classified Owls (and there are two main types of owl) differently from raptors, based on their appearance and their jizz (behaviours).

But now I'm guessing that both our ability to read DNA, and the increasing number of finds of dinosaurs with feathers, and with wings, has shaken things up more than a little in the past few years. Recent evidence suggests owls may have a history going back at least to the last great extinction event (65.5 million years ago); and there is confusion there about whether they were related to raptors. Whilst leading to the opposite conculsion recent DNA examination suggest that owls are much more closely related to birds like nightjars, than they are to falcons (which are definitely raptors).

But to go back to that first question: "What do you mean by a "raptor"?" Because if you mean a bird, a predator, with a hooked bill for tearing flesh and strong, piercing talons for grabbing and holding prey? Then that description cleary fits and owl. And you must conclude that an owl is a raptor.

But if you are trying to classify birds according to their origins, their relatives, their DNA, and not just their behaviours (which are an adaption to their environemnt), then you might say no Owls are a different and belong in a different order to raptors.

So I guess that's the honest answer. It depends on what you mean by the uestion. And if you want one based on the owls heritage, we still don't really know. It's something biologists will be working on for some time to come.

Yes, On Oct.6th 2010 I was bow hunting in Yale, Michigan, 16 ft. off the ground in a tree when a screech owl whacked me up side the head at dusk. It then landed in a tree just in front of me (that's how I knew it was an owl) facing me. Once I composed myself after the initial surprise, I immediately text a friend to what had just happened. As I text him, I believe the same owl struck me again in the exact same place aside my head. Luckily, I was wearing a face mask which had material covering the sides of my head. I originally thought it was a fluke that he struck me but the phone was illuminating my face when he struck me the second time. That was enough for me.

the white tailed rabbit, the frog eye wolf and the 8 legged snake

34-43 cm length,206-475 grams. wingspan 85-104cm.also females are slightly larger than males.

the government keeps them to produce more.

They use them for diffrent reasons.

e.g. Wood pecker: peck wood...

There are 216 known species of owls in the world. Some of the most common North American owls include the great horned owl, eastern screech owl, western screech owl, barn owl, short-eared owl and long-eared owl.

Screech Owls, Great Horned Owls, Barred Owls mainly.

Yes, there are, . . . barn owls live in the coniferous forest. I've also heard that spotted owls live there, but I'm not certain.

Dont know what kind of owls are in the coniferous forest, but i know there are a lot of owls. They are a dominate animal species there!!!

Try Long Eared Owl!

Barn owls move using their feathers. They have very silent feathers to help them stay quite when prey comes and when a predator comes.

Barn owls also relied on sound ,and they still do, and that is why on of their ears are lower than the other.

Birds do not sweat. They release heat via panting, not unlike dogs. They will also hold their wings away from their body. Baby raptors, especially owls, have a lot of down for the first few weeks and can become very hot in warm climates. This is one reason it is so important, if you have a barn owl nesting box, to clean it out of pellet debris every year between late Oct. and late Nov. A build up of debris in an owl nesting box will cause higher tempertures during times of extreme heat.

yes, if the horse is dead.

They just try to protect it from anything that would eat it. A turkey chick can eat and drink on its own, it just needs to learn what to eat and it learns that by watching its parents.

The California Condor has a body length of 43 - 52 inches, a wingspan up to 9 1/2 feet, and weighs 18 - 23 pounds

Owls sleep sitting upright, when perched on a branch or the like. They hunch their heads down between their shoulders, sometimes their beaks tuck into their neck or chest feathers. They sleep with their eyes closed.

As for how they get to sleep: like humans, when they get tired enough for sleep they rest and wait for sleep to overcome them.

both because they get eaten and eat other animals so that is my answer

Depends on the species, really. Turkey vultures have a wingspan of 5.25 to 6 feet, and weigh around 1.5 to 5 lbs. Black vultures have a 4.5 to 5.5 ft wingspan and weigh around 3.5 to 6 lbs. The King vulture has a wingspan of 4.5 to 6 feet and weigh around 6 to 10 lbs.

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regurgitation is basically puking up. owls cannot digest bones and fur of the prey they eat so they produce "owl pellets" which look a bit like poo but are in fact balls of fur and bones that the owl has puked up.

hey are 7 months old

As soon as all flight feathers have grown. Birds of prey are usually fully grown and leave the nest at about 12 weeks. Remember that migratory birds must become skilled flyers very quickly, as they might have to fly several thousand miles only a few months after being hatched.

Burrowing Owls are opportunistic predators, preying

primarily on insects and small mammals which make up ~55% of their diet . During the day, owls prey on insects near the burrow; whereas, foraging for small

mammals occurs predominately at night.

pocket gophers, voles, and deer mice may be common prey for the burrowing owl, scientists can learn what mammals these owls eat by examining their pellets.

old world vultures are normally smaller then new world vulture Egyptian vultures are the smallest

No, they are carnivores. They eat small birds, voles, mice etc...

I'm almost certain owls need to be surgically sexed.

The California condor is gymnogyps californianus.A large ,very rare vulture,with a wingspan up to nine feet.Recently reintroduced into the wild in California and Arizona.Other condors are being bred in captivity for future release,to augment the current population of wild condors.

because it is their natural instinct to run away from them and they are their preditor