magellanic horned owl facts
Name: Magellanic Horned Owl
Scientific Name: Bubo Magellanicus
Family: Strigidae
Order: n/a
Size: It measures between 45 and 55 cm
Weight: n/a
Description:
Rounded body. Its back has plumage with patches of ocher, brown and white. Neck and throat white with ocher ring. It has 2 patches of feathers behind the eyes that seem ears. No apparent sexual dimorphism.
Reproduction:
Puts between 2 and 4 eggs in tree or rock holes.
Distribution:
All Chile
Residence:
All year
Features:
Night Hunter, sharp vision and silent flight.
Food:
Carnivore eats rodents.
Habitat:
oOen, shrub-steppe.
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