NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL  CHICKS BY TRISH SWEETT

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ABOUT THE PHOTO...

Trish says...

Ron & I drove to Beaumont Alberta and met up with Corey and Richard "The Owl Guys" www.flickr.com/photos/richarddmann/collections/7215762568....
We had a chance to meet some really cool owls. Thanks guys , it was awesome!! The saw-whet owlets are so fricken cute!!

ABOUT THE BIRD SPECIES...

They can weigh from 54 to 151 g (1.9 to 5.3 oz) with an average of around 80 g (2.8 oz), making them one of the smallest owls in North America. In relative size to other owls they are close to the size of an American Robin.

The Northern Saw-Whet Owl makes a repeated tooting whistle sound.

Their habitat is coniferous forests, sometimes mixed or deciduous woods, across North America. 

They mainly eat small organisms with a focus on small mammals in their diet. In a test done by Swengel and Swengel they found that the Northern Saw-Whet Owls most often eat deer mice, 67% and voles, 16% of the time in Wisconsin. In a similar test done by Holt and Leroux in Montana found that these owls ate more voles than other mammal species.

Source: Wikipedia

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