the habitat and diet of an owl?
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Which kind of owl?\n\nThere are many different species of owl, and the habitats and diets of the snowy owl which lives in the far northern tundra and feeds on lemmings are a lot different that the spotted owl that lives in Pacific northwest old-growth forests and eats voles and shrews, which are very different from the pygmy elf owl that roosts inside hollow cactus plants and eats grasshoppers.
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Predatory animals...  Birds, and Owls that might eat them.\n\nAvailability of mate.... Without a mate there would be no reason to be in the area/ they wouldn't be producing a population to sustain life in that area.
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Collared Scops-Owls are a native nocturnal bird of Singapore.
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I'll take a shot.\n\nI would say a rabbit because they eat green vegetation which doesn't pack as much nutrients per weight as ants and termites do.\n\nBut that's all speculation. I should stick to answering questions about rocks.
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Here:\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?q=wild+birds&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=wild+birds&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-img-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8\n\nI don't know exact;y what you are looking for so here are a few pages full.
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We have a hoard of wild cottontails around here, and hundreds of quail, several chipmunks, and even a few roadrunners. A couple of hawks and a few buzzards nest in the area. Add a few wild cats, and the occasional coyote, and that about covers the wildlife around here.  We throw out all our "edible" leftovers and such near the house, where we can see them feed, but not so near that they would be leery of approaching. The birds of prey don't come in, of course, but the quail, the chipmunks, and the rabbits get a supplementary diet of stale crackers, broken chips, old cereal or bread, slightly over the hill fruit, left over salad greens (and popcorn) and the like. Because the quail, rabbits and chipmunks come around looking for food, the road runners and hawks come around quite a bit. Though the occasional quail gets caught, most often they end up eating our bugs and mice. So far, though we have been doing it since we moved in several years ago, none of the animals are any less skittish about humans, and none are dependant on what we leave out.\nAs long as you don't leave out so much that they come to you for all their food (which could be a problem if you need to stop feeding for any reason) I see no problem with that. Also, keep your distance and try to make sure they never get so used to you that they stop running away when you walk out. it's good for them to be afraid of humans, and that should not change.
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Ravens and all birds are considered to be messengers. As I speak there are 4 outside picking up the deer corn. Do I consider this a message. No. But last year one came and sat on the top of the gazebo and wouldn't shut up. Very annoying. About an hour later the phone rang. My daughter had just been rushed into the hospital in premature labor. What's really great about the ravens is they have a plan. About 10 or more get together and each has it's own job. One takes one road and the other ones have thier own road to monitor. When one finds food, they call to the next one, which calls to the next one and pretty soon all of them are there eating. Owls on the other hand are considered messengers of death or soon to be dead. So watch those hooters. Oh, and usually if you see an eagle, a raven is not far away. Well, where I live anyway. I just answered this ? yesterday. Now as i sit here typing, there's a Bald Eagle sitting out on the ice in front of our house. And inching closer. The only thing I can figure is, the ravens were here yesterday eating. If he's bringing a messenger... This has never happened before. Maybe I should go out there. Oh...he's walking this way!! For true.
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Cardinals, goldfinches (one of my favorites), house wrens, red-headed woodpeckers, downy woodpeckers, nuthatches (can't remember which ones), and lots of little rosy finches, mourning doves, and sparrows.\n\nInteresting side note: We have a pair of sharp-shinned hawks in our neighborhood that periodically come hunt at our feeder. I have twiced witnessed one of the hawks chase down a sparrow and catch it in mid-air. It is sad and i hate losing song birds, but it is a truly awesome sight to see this large bird nab a quick little sparrow out of mid air.
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Typically called an 'edge effect'.\nAny disturbance in an ecosystem will create  fragmentation of a habitat.... depending on what species' habitat you're talking about.  For example, the pine martin requires large areas of mature coniferous cover.  Putting a clearcut in the middle of a large area of mature coniferous cover will fragment the martin habitat.  The boundary of the mature forest at the clearcut, though, will provide habitat for 'edge species' which require characteristics of both habitat types (mature coniferous and clearcut).  Some species include deer and moose and bears who value the browse and berries in the clearcut, AND the cover of the forest.  Raptors like hawks use the edge as it increases their kill rate: it's easier to see and kill their prey.\nSome species need the variation in habitat on the edges of lakes, too.  Waterfowl need the water for food, and the shore for nesting.  Some fish depend on the insect life that exist only on the edge of their lake.
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Diet is reconstructed by reconstructing the animal and reconstructing its environment.\n\nReconstructing the environment can be achieved by looking at the plant fossils that occur alongside an animal. That gives a good indication what type of habitat the animal lived in, whether it was tropical rainforest, arctic tundra, desert etc. With that information it is possible to construct a list of possible diets. For example we won’t speculate that an animal could have eaten bamboo if it live din deserts, and we can rule out that an animal ate lizards if it lived in polar wastes.\n\nThe next step is to reconstruct the animal itself. \n\nThat reconstruction normally starts with the teeth. Teeth can tell us a lot about diet. For instance predatory animals usually have sharp widely-spaced teeth like a lion or crocodile, while herbivores have rounded, closely packed teeth like a cow.  \n\nThe next step is to look at teeth wear. Looking at teeth structure gives us a lot of information about diet but it isn’t perfect since animals like pandas and fruit bats have sharp carnivore type teeth yet live entirely on plants. But plant leaves contain a lot of hard material and they wear teeth away very fast and leave a lot of scratches, so we can see whether an animal ate a lot of plant material by looking at the teeth. That way we can tell separate out animals like pandas and fruit bats that recently evolved a vegetarian diet from their carnivorous descendants.\n\nThe next step is to reconstruct the rest of the skeleton. By looking at the ways the bones are hinged and how big the muscle attachment points were we can get a very good idea of how an animal moved. That then tells us thing like whether a meat eating animal was strong and fast enough to make its own kills like an eagle, or whether it had to rely on scavenging like a vulture. It also tells us whether an animal could climb, or swim or burrow.\n\nThe final step is to look at injuries. When bones break they leave a scar even after hey heal, and starvation and disease also leave marks on bones. By looking for those signs we can see whether the animal was suffering from injuries associated with being kicked by prey animals, or from falls from trees and so forth and we can tel whether its prey was seasonally abundant like salmon, or whether it was available year-round like tropical grasses.\n\nSo now we know what types of food existed alongside the animal because we reconstructed its habitat.\nAnd we know what the animal was adapted to eat by the tooth structure.\nAnd we know how much plant material it ate from the wear on the teeth.\nAnd we know whether the animal got that food by hunting, scavenging, swimming, climbing etc. from the muscle and bone structure.\nAnd we know when that food was available, what sort f animals were being attacked by predators and so forth.\n\nWith all that information we can build up a very accurate picture of animal diets just form fossil evidence.
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OMNIVORES \nEats live prey and plants \nOSTEOMALACIA \nSoftening of the bones \nOVIPAROUS \nReproduces by laying eggs\n\nOr...\nOdd
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go to http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/
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One day I came home and there was a baby owl IN my house. I hadn't left any windows/doors open so I have absolutely no idea how it got in. It wouldn't leave either, she just stayed perched on top of my dresser and flew around the house a little. It was weird though because I felt really peaceful with her there...She finally flew out of a window about 4 days later. I looked online and found out that an owl can mean " a truth will be revealed in the near future". A week later I found out I was pregnant. Creepy, right?
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The owl is from the Owls of Athena, included on the university's seal. See the link in Source.
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The squirrels in my yard eat anything they can find. Of course, the bird seed that I put out, but I have also seen them eat the bark off of small trees too. The leaf buds from trees, as well as digging for flower bulbs and bugs. They also find a few acorns that they had buried previously. Again, anything they can find, they are omnivorous.
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Species -- There are about 300 varieties of squirrels around the world. In North America there are ten. Examples are the red/brown squirrels that live in evergreen trees and eat seeds of pinecones and the gray squirrel which lives in woods of oaks, ashes, and beeches and mainly eats beech nuts and acorns.\n\nSizes -- Their sizes vary considerably. For example, the gray squirrel can be up to three time as large as the red squirrel but smaller than a fox squirrel. A recently born gray squirrel is about one inch long and weighs as little as half and ounce to one ounce. The size of an adult gray squirrel is about 18 inches and can weigh up to a pound or more.\n\nWhere do they live? Squirrels typically live in trees -- in holes in the trunk, or in treetop crow's nests. The homes in the treetops are called dreys and sometimes consist of two rooms and a nursery!\n\nHow old do they live? Squirrels can live up to 10 or 12 years. After six years, they are considered old squirrels.\n\nCauses of death -- In addition of dying by being attacked by their natural predators, they can also die from man, traffic, and natural death.\n\nSquirrel's belong to the order "Rodentia", with 1650 species, it is the largest group of living mammals.  It also comprises forty percent of all present day mammal species. \n\nThere are over 365 species of squirrels in seven families. They include the tree squirrel, ground squirrel, and flying squirrel. Plus many squirrel-like mammals such as the gopher, ground hog and prairie dog. \n\nA baby squirrel weighs approximately one ounce at birth,  and is about one inch long. They do not have hair or teeth, and are virtually blind for the first six to eight weeks. \n\nA squirrel's brain is about the size of a walnut. \n\nThe average adult squirrel needs to eat about a pound of food a week to maintain an active life. \n\nThere's lots of other info in the links! Good luck!!
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In fact they do.  They are called The California Spotted Owls.  http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/article_87.shtml