The Northern Spotted Owl Trivia Quiz

Answer: carnivore

The Northern Spotted Owl is a carnivore because it eats meat, like flying squirrels, and mice. It is not a scavenger because it doesn't eat dead animals. It is not a herbivore because it doesn't eat any plants, like grass, or flowers. It is not an omnivore because it eats only meat, like mice, but not plants, like grass.

Its diet includes mice, bats, flying squirrels, crickets, cockroaches, and moles.

Answer: their habitat is being destroyed

The Northern Spotted Owl is endangered because they live in old-growth forest and the trees that they live in contain very valuable wood. The forests where the owls live can also be affected by the clearing of them to build houses. Tornados aren't really a cause of them being endangered because where they live there aren't really that many tornados. Hunting also is not a reason why the Northern Spotted Owl is endangered because you can't go out and buy a license to hunt Northern Spotted Owls like you can for deer or turkey.

Answer: hunt and fly

The parents of the baby owls raise their young until they are able to hunt and fly. Hear, see, and make noises are not the right answers because the young would die if they only knew how to see, hear, or make little noises. To survive they need to be able to hunt for food and fly to escape from predators.

Answer: flying squirrels

The Northern Spotted Owl mostly eats flying squirrels. It is a carnivore so grass is out. Although the Northern Spotted Owl does eat birds they couldn't really handle eating a whole crow because they eat little birds and the crow is too big for them to manage. Fish also is wrong because they can't go in the water to catch the fish.

Their diet is mostly flying squirrels, little birds, moles, mice, crickets, cockroaches, and bats.

Answer: old-growth forests

The Northern Spotted Owl lives in old-growth forest. They live in the holes of the trees because it provides shelter for them. They don't live in the ground. Other birds like the Burrowing Owl live underground, but not the Northern Spotted Owl. The Northern Spotted Owl may hunt for some of its food in meadows, but it doesn't live there.

A meadow wouldn't give the owl the shelter it would need.

Answer: with their sharp beaks

The Northern Spotted Owl kills prey by breaking their prey's neck with their beaks, and then swallowing them whole. They don't use their talons to kill; however they do pick up prey with their talons so that they can take them to their nest. They don't kill prey with their feathers because they have soft feathers, there is no way that anything a Northern Spotted Owl catches could be killed with one of its feathers.

Answer: brown

The Northern Spotted Owl is mainly brown with white dots on it. It isn't black. When the Northern Spotted Owl is first born it is white, although its feathers turn brown as it matures.

Answer: bones and fur

An owl will eat a small animal, like a mouse. Then later they regurgitate something called a pellet. Since they ate a small animal, the bones and fur that were part of the animal are now in the pellet. Sticks and leaves aren't found in a pellet because owls don't eat these things. The same goes for dirt and rocks, and grass and twigs.

Answer: white

Their babies are white when they are first born. Soon they will turn brown but when they are first born they are white. When they are grown, Northern Spotted Owls usually have dark brown eyes.

Answer: at night

The northern spotted owl is nocturnal, so it eats during the night time and sleeps during the day. So mostly they are active hunters during the night time. They wouldn't be hunting in the morning, or the afternoon because they would be sleeping.