Birds of Prey
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What Are the Eastern Screech Owls?
Eastern screech owls are nocturnal, and they have the same noise reducing feathers as other owls. They can hunt pretty much silently, catching mice, shrews, small birds, small reptiles, insects and basically anything edible that enters their tree cavities or lives in wooded areas. Owls have extremely strong talons and either stump or squeeze their prey to death. When parent screech owl go out hunting, by the time they bring food back to their babies in a nest, it's dead and ready to be picked apart or gobbled down. But sometimes screech owl find some teeny tiny reptiles called slender blind snakes, thread snakes or worm snakes. These are
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