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Description

Vocalizations

Range, Migratory Patterns, and Habitat

Diet and Hunting

Courtship and matingNesting

Nesting

Development of Young and Life Span

Works Cited



The Great Horned Owl will sound a wide variety of calls from a hawk-like cry to hissing, beak snapping, meowing, baying, shrieks and coos. The most common call is a low, deep series of long and short whoo-hoos usually repeated between 3 and 8 times (Terres 1966 and Voous 1989).