Owls
This owl's call sounds like "Who cooks for you?"
What is a barred owl?
This is the fastest animal in the world
What is a peregrine falcon?
This bird is our national symbol
What is a bald eagle?
These three things are what makes a raptor, a raptor
What are: keen senses, sharp talons, and hooked beak?
Animals like owls that are awake during the night and sleep during the day
What is nocturnal?
The maximum amount an owl can turn their head in one direction
What is 270 degrees
This Bird's call is the most famous of all raptors, including, fasely, as a bald eagle call in the movies.
What is a Red-Tailed Hawk
Considered to be the largest eagle in the United States
What is the Golden Eagle
All raptors eat meat, and are considered to be this.
What is a carnivore/predator?
Animals, like hawls, falcons, and eagles, that are awake during the day and asleep at night
What is Diurnal?
Helps them fly silently
What are their Feathers/barbed feathers
The smallest falcon in the United States
This is the age Bald Eagles gain their white head and tail feathers
What is 5 years old?
Even though this bird does not have sharp talons and does not kill its prey, it is still considered in the raptor family
What is a turkey vulture?
Act of free falling to pick up speed before hitting prey also in the air.
What is stooping?
This owl lives in the Tundra, near the arctic circle
What is a snowy Owl
These birds are piscavores (fish) and dive completely underwater to catch their prey
What are Osprey?
Wingspan of a Golden Eagle
In Birds of prey, male and females are different sizes; these ones are usually 30% larger than their counterparts
What are females?
The act of using broad wings and wind to not flap and stay in the sky
What is soaring?
These two birds are the smallest and largest owls found in Minnesota
What are the Great Gray and Saw-whet Owls
These two hawks get mistaken for each other often, with slight difference in size and tail shape
What is sharp-shinned and coopers?
Eagles have some of the best THIS in the animal kingdom.
What are eyes/vision?
There are over this many species of raptors that can be found in Minnesota
What is 30?
Owls have A-symmetrical (lopsided) THESE in order to triangulate prey without seeing them.
What are ears?