...The Tawny Owls are found throughout Europe and North Africa. They are also found eastwards to Iran and Western Siberia. The Tawny Owl can range in colors from darkish brown, light brown, gray and darkish red. They have big black eyes. The Tawny Owl also has a small pointy nose and small curved claws. The claws are blackish with dirty white bases. The owl’s habitat usually varies. They like to live in mostly wooded and forest-like areas like cemeteries and parks. The Tawny Owls almost always breed in woodlands and forests. They like to inhabit coniferous forest. The Tawny Owls are always hunting at night. They are usually quiet listening, waiting and watching for their prey. When the owls spot the animal, it swoops down, covers the prey and instantly kills it. The animals they eat are rabbits, mice, voles, earthworms, insects, beetles, birds, frogs, fish, lizards and molluses. Since the Tawny Owl is relatively a small bird, it has a number of predators. Those predators are usually dogs, cats, and foxes. But it also includes hawks, eagles, and other large birds. As far as the Tawny Owl eggs, the main predators are squirrels and rats. In conclusion, the Tawny Owl can be known as a small owl. It hunts at night. They have predators but also a long list of prey. They are very meticulous while hunting. In fact they rely on their sight and hearing to kill their prey. Bibliography Lewis, Deane. The Owl Pages. 22 July 2013. <http://www.owlpages.com/>. Nottinghamshire...
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...Snowy Owls of the Arctic By BadWolf2 Zoology 101 Description of Snowy Owls Scientific name Recently changed genus General size and markings Differences between males and females Diet Primary diet and quantity Hunting Diurnal, not nocturnal Area of hunting ground Decline of food source Breeding Mates for life Protection of nesting area Normal clutch size Food availability effects on clutch size Migration How far do they travel for food? A population decline or local extinction The snowy owl is a larger raptor type carnivorous bird whose body height is between 20 and 28 inches high. The wingspan of this owl reaches 4.2 to 4.8 feet across and its weight is between 3.5 to 6.5 pounds (“Snowy Owls”, 2012). The genus of this bird has recently been changed from Nyetea Scandiata to Bubo Scandiacus from analyzing their DNA they have found that they are more closely related to the Great Horned Owl which makes them a Bubo ("Snowy Owl," n.d.). The snowy owl is also known by other names such as the Arctic owl or the Great White owl. Most people know the snowy owl from the Harry Potter movies and the character Hedwig. Many snowy owls look this way. The younger owls are white with darker markings and as they age they lose the dark markings and become almost completely white. Females, on the other hand, do not lose all their dark markings. They may become whiter as they age, but still retain some darker or grayish marks on their plumage (“Snowy Owls”, 2012)....
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...URRBurrowing Owls 1. Habitat: a. They usually live in grasslands or prairies, where they have burrows, but some do live in close range to humans. - Burrowing owls can dig the holes, but usually they just find used burrows squirrels or tortoises made. - They place mammal dung in their burrow and feathers too. The dung is to control microclimate and attract insects to eat. b. They are found in Canada, west central United States, Florida, some of the Caribbean islands, Mexico, and the grasslands of South America. - They are an endangered species in Canada and the United States. c. Burrowing owls live in colonies that are 100 yards apart. 2. Eating Patterns: a. They hunt during dawn and dusk. b. Burrowing owls eat insects, reptiles, small mammals, birds, and even carrion. They also eat seeds and fruits. c. While the female is nesting or watching the hatchlings, the male will hunt and bring food back to the burrow, and later on, when the chicks are a little older, the female will join the hunt with her mate again. 3. Territorial Defense: a. Male owls have a primary defense song in which they establish territory. - The song sounds like a chuckling, chattering sound, but they do sometimes scream. - It can only be heard near the nest of the owl. b. They also bob their heads to show excitement or distress. 4. Breeding: a. Males will perform an aerial ritual for the female he chooses. - In the ritual, he’ll...
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...The Barn Owl: Its Role and its Endangerment Often times, it goes unrealized that there are important roles and purposes distributed amongst the vast fauna on Earth. It is this diversity which maintains a sense of equilibrium when it comes to animal populations and/or flora-related phenomena. The Barn Owl (Tyto alba), falling under the smaller side of owl species, exemplifies itself as both a fundamental element in rodent control as well as a symbol of ghostly beauty. Yet, survival of the species is not guaranteed. Numerous factors, including both naturally occurring as well as human-caused, have contributed to the owl’s decline in recent years. Additionally, given that their breeding cycles produce a limited amount of young in conjunction to their short life spans, Tyto alba’s numbers are predicted to reach further abatement in the near future. Human-associated activity has been regarded as a significant component in the Barn Owl’s downfall; nonetheless, human involvement in the conservation of the species can also mend this trend and bring it back towards escalation. Having a wingspan of approximately 85cm, Tyto alba is considered relatively small in comparison to other species of owls (Bunn, Warburton, and Wilson 23). They weigh between 470 and 570g (1.0-1.3lbs) and feature an array of distinct physical qualities (Martin, Raid, and Branch 1). Their head resembles a heart and have no visible ear tufts as other species of owl portray. Their beak is typically of a pink shade...
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...Assignment 8 Can a close friendship be the means to cope with life and overcome fears and challenges? This seems to be the case in Jackie Kay’s short story “Owl” written in 2012, where the two main characters together experience a very hurtful childhood event overlapping with an encounter with an owl. The story tells us how both of these incidents shapes the friendship between the main characters and how it becomes a lifelong walk together in this life but also a journey into a fantasy world of their own. The short story is written in the first person. This means that the story is told by the main-character Barn, or Anita as she is really called. It is characterised by a heavily use of dialogue and direct speech. This dialogue is almost entirely between Barn and Tawny (Tawny’s real name is Marion). This literary device is a way to illustrate that it is only about the two of them, Barn and Tawny – the rest of the world does not really matter: The fact that we only get an insight and hear about the two women life for example their childhood, creates a closer relation with the two of them and at the same time we as readers gets distanced from everyone else. This is also why that the narrator makes heavily use of the personal pronoun ‘we’. It forms an affiliation between the reader and the main-characters, which is Barn and Tawny. The close relation between the two of them is also seen in the following quote: “”It’s only scary because we all want to be perfect. It’s not scary...
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...An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The time compression and surrealistic details from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge captures the reader attention and imagination so much that the story becomes plausible. For instance, The author writes, “ the water roared in his ear like the Niagara,” to make the reader imagine what is taking place, hence making the reader believe what is going on in the story (Bierce 86). We sometimes wish that we could control time, rewind, fast-forward, pause, and play, if only we had such capabilities, then we could change the outcome of the situations that we caused for the better. Time does not change; however, time is the measurement of events whether it’s past, present or future. Usually, we have a concept of how much time an activity should take to accomplish, such as going for a walk or getting ready in the morning before going to work. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge uses time compression when describing Farquhar’s escape, yet we don’t realize this is happening until the end of the story, thanks to a vivid description of Farquhar actions, the way the author describes him as he comes up from under the water gasping for air, or a description of the setting and how desolate the place is while traveling that “not even a barking dog was there to show human habitation” (Bierce 86). Farquhar closes his eyes to slip into his own reality, a reality where nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible with this in mind, Farquhar’s imagination...
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...Betty Bates AC1300186 Introduction to Ecology Assignment 8 The Northern Spotted Owl Habitat vs. Logging Interests in the Pacific Northwest The Northern Spotted Owl (Strix Occidentalis Courina) likes to live in older forest growths. It is often thought of as the medium sized owl, but in reality, it is the largest owl in North America. Spotted owls do their hunting at night. The spotted owl’s diet consists mainly of small rodents, other birds and reptiles, but have been seen feeding on cairns, and insects. Owls are usually found in California and the Pacific North West in the United States, where they live in old forest growths. (The Defenders of Wild Life). They will not tolerate habitat “disturbance” and are very protective of their territory in which they live, and hunt. Owls prefer tall trees with broken tops where they can fly under and past these broken tops, where they like to nest and raise their young. The Northern spotted owl is a protected species. Due to extensive logging, the owls and their habitat is swiftly declining at an alarming rate; they were added to the endangered species list in the early “1990s” (The Defenders of Wildlife). Unfortunately, the habitat they prefer is a direct target for the logging industry the cutting of trees in their habitat, conversion of land, wind storms, and wildfires have decreased their numbers“( example: 100 pair in British Columbia, 1200 pair in Oregon, 560 pair in Northern California, and 500 pair...
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...goes without saying that human beings find beauty in all things rare. We covet uniqueness, scarcity and anything special. This does not exclude the many threatened and endangered species in the U.S. The Northern spotted owl is one of those precious gems. As its population declines due to deforestation, conservationists fight the timber industry. However, pointing fingers at Pacific Northwest loggers, Americans who work hard for their families, doesn’t seem to be solving the crisis. Spotted owls make their homes within the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Massive trees, (cedars, firs, hemlocks and spruces to name a few), sink their roots deep into the soil. These aging trees serve to prevent landslides, erosion and give homes to the many forest creatures. 150 years of logging has left a mere ten percent of these forests. Fewer trees mean fewer spotted owls. Forced to live in “cluster habitats”, or small pieces of protected forest, young owls have little territory to disperse to and their survival rate has dropped. “If habitat destruction is halted soon, there will therefore be some owls left after 100 or even 200 years, barring other catastrophes ( Doak, 1989.)” Throughout Washington and Oregon about 2,500 to 3,000 pairs of Northern spotted owls still reside in old growth. Their numbers continue to plummet. The Pacific Northwest depends greatly upon independent and large timber companies. As a whole, the multi-billion dollar industry eradicates 125,000 acres of...
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...One Warrior Down A man is being hanged on a bridge, the author, Ambrose Bierce, goes inside the man’s mind to show readers what Peyton Farquhar is thinking in his final minutes. Farquhar is being hanged for being found guilty of tampering with the Owl Creek Bridge. When Farquhar is actually hanged the rope breaks and he falls into the water, frees himself, swims away, dodges gunfire, and runs away to his family-or so he thinks! During his escape, Farquhar sees everything in grave detail, he sees insects as if he is looking at them under a microscope, and he sees the gun man’s eye color, he even describes them to the readers. Ambrose uses foreshadowing and literary techniques to create a shock effect in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and leads readers to a surprise resolution in the short story. Bierce uses Farquhar’s detailed vision, neck pain, and Farquhar running and running down a long drive trying to get to his home to foreshadow what’s actually happening. Peyton‘s detailed vision foreshadows him being in a dreamlike trance because he was just hanged and he is dreaming about his surroundings and what would happen if he escaped. Farquhar’s neck pain foreshadows him being strangled but the noose with which he was hanged with and his neck being broken. Farquhar...
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...People all cope with events that occur differently. When a person dies, it is sad for everybody. You might have hated that person, but you would still be sad if they died a horrible death, right? Peyton Farquhar, a 35 year old man who lives in the south during the civil war in America. Farquhar is being hanged on a bridge the day after a federal scout was spying in the area. While Farquhar is being hung, he goes in between life and death and is put into an imaginary world where he escapes the hanging and gets back to his family. That is, until reality snaps back into place and Peyton dies, never having escaped the federal army. In the short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Ambrose Bierce uses similes, inner thinking, and specific details to build a mood. First off, similes build the mood by comparing one thing to another. “...a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith's hammer upon an anvil...” (Bierce 2). In this part of the story, author Ambrose Bierce compares the metallic percussion that Farquhar is hearing to that of a blacksmith’s hammer upon an anvil, building the mood and getting the reader to predict what this sound is like, and...
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...An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce A man and his executioners stand on a railroad bridge in Alabama. The Civil War has begun and military justice is about to be served; the only spectators are a handful of soldiers. The man to be executed is a civilian dressed in the clothes of a plantation owner, and his executioners are Union soldiers. As he waits for his executioners to start, the man looks down at the water below him and imagines ways he could escape home to his wife and children. With a nod of the captain's head, the hanging begins. Part 2 introduces Peyton Farquhar, a wealthy Alabamian slave owner. Farquhar is not in the army because of personality issues, but he is determined to support the Confederate cause. An opportunity appears when a soldier dressed in a gray Confederate uniform rides up to his house. The soldier tells him that Union troops are repairing railroads in the surrounding area and have recently rebuilt the nearby bridge over Owl Creek. Apparently the chief has issued an order saying that any civilian caught tampering with the railroad will be hanged. The soldier leaves after informing Farquhar that a pile of flammable timber was piled up near the bridge. An hour later, the soldier rides past the Farquhar residence heading north. It turns out that he is actually a Union scout. Part 3 begins with Farquhar falling through the bridge. Unable to think wisely, he feels himself freeing his hands from their bindings, removing the noose around...
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...Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” though different, compare as examples of Naturalism with their theme of human survival of the fittest and harsh telling of the human condition. The human condition in these stories is that while it seems humans have free will, fate is already predetermined. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “The Blue Hotel” characters differ. Peter Farquhar is a wealthy plantation owner, desperate to help the Southern cause. His family background is well established in the area. In contrast, little is known about the Swede, his name and background is not known at all not even where he is from. Peter Farquhar is trusting while the Swede is paranoid and afraid. Both...
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...Ambrose Bierce was an author who had a way of writing a story that was deeply felt by its reader. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” the main character, Peyton Farquhar, is being hanged by war hardened soldiers. Farquhar has a vision just mere seconds before he dies, a vision in which the soldiers fire continuous rounds from cannon and rifle at him. “Chickamauga” is about a boy of just six years old who is a deaf mute. He wanders through the woods with a wooden sword in hand, playing soldier. He falls asleep and wakes to the sight of crippled, dying soldiers retreating from battle. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “Chickamauga” Ambrose Bierce makes the reader understand the utter darkness of death by using imagery, foreshadowing,...
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...An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 1. The story begins with an exposition in an authorial narrative situation. An authorial narrator can be identified by special characteristics. The authorial narrator is situated outside the world of the characters and hovers over the events of the story as an invisible omniscient observer. He can make interjections and comments on the events. Such interjections and comments can be found in the text. An example for an interjection can be found in the following sentence at the end of Part I - ‘As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed […]’ - or at the beginning of Part II - ‘Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from […]’ The last sentence of the second paragraph of Part I is a comment of the authorial narrator. ‘Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect […]’ Another characteristic of an authorial narrator is territorial and temporal omnipresence. The narrator can be present in all places were characters are alone and he can jump in time. An example for the territorial omnipresence is when the gray-clad soldier who visited the protagonist Peyton Farquhar at his house repasses the Farquhar´s house one hour after he rode away. In this situation the soldier is alone. This event happens in a flashback in Part II which is an indicator for the temporal omnipresence of the authorial narrator...
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...In the short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, a southern planter by the name of Peyton Farquhar is being hung on the account of treason against the south during the civil war. Bierce uniquely uses symbolism to show his opinion on what a person’s journey during the afterlife looks like. All of the things that happen in the story to Farquhar symbolize something about the afterlife. The bridge that Farquhar is being hung on represents life in general and the rope used to hang him is Farquhar’s lifeline. After he is dropped from the bridge, the snapping of the rope represents the ending of Farquhar's life line on earth. When he hits the water it means that he has entered the afterlife and that journey begins. Farquhar...
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