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Kingdom: Animalia Northern Spotted Owl |
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Description:
Northern spotted owls are dark to chestnut brown with round or oval white spots on the head, neck, back, and under parts. Facial rim or border is dark brown with a yellowish to green bill, claws blackish brown and feet feathered. Length is sixteen inches to forty-two inches wingspan with a weight of seventeen to twenty-nine ounces. The spotted owl is a large nocturnal, predatory bird with dark immovable eyes that can see by day and night and large rounded heads that can turn more than 180 degrees in either direction.
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