But even though they’re an inch or so longer than Snowy Owls and look just as big, they weigh much less than Snowy Owls-sometimes less than half! Also, their wingspan isn’t as long as that of Snowy Owls, probably because their wings don’t carry nearly as much weight.
Measured from head to tail, the Great Gray Owl is the biggest owl in the world. I don’t think his species is actually mentioned in the books, but my friend Katty from Belgium found that he IS called a Great Gray Owl on J.K. The Weasley family has a very clumsy owl named Errol. Hedwig is lucky she lives in a magical world! Errol Global warming is expected to hurt Snowy Owls over much of their range. When a Snowy Owl’s face gets gooped up with blood and guts, it sometimes cleans up by wiping its face in the snow.You can see more photos of wild Snowy Owls on my Snowy Owl flickr photostream. Depending on where they live, they may eat a lot of snowshoe hares, grebes and ducks (especially Horned Grebes), ptarmigans, ground squirrels, rats, partridge, and even fish. But when lemming numbers are down, Snowy Owls eat a lot of other things. They usually swallow each lemming whole, head first, but if they’re not too hungry, they sometimes bite off just the head, or even eat parts in small bits. When lemmings are abundant, Snowy Owls may eat hardly anything else. Lemmings have enormous population fluctuations from one year to the next. Their main prey species is the lemming, a fierce little rodent smaller than a chipmunk. Snowy Owls are predators, and eat only animals, never plants. Some misidentified cave art by Paleolithic people of Europe includes owls on a cave wall in Ariege, France in many sources (such as earlier iterations of this very page), including authoritative ones, the drawing is identified as Snowy Owl, but this first owl depicted in art anywhere in the world is almost certainly a Long-eared Owl, as explained by the Bradshaw Foundation. A few breed in the northern British Isles. Real Snowy Owls live in the arctic tundra, in North America, Europe, and Asia. I found out some interesting things on The Pet Place site about Harry Potter. Their names are Gizmo, Kasper, Oops, Swoops, Oh Oh, Elmo and Bandit. Seven different owls played the role of Hedwig. Claws that can kill a large duck through thick feathers can be pretty hard on human arms, too, even when the owl is just trying to balance itself. You can’t see in the photo that Daniel Radcliffe is wearing thick leather protection on his arm. Healthy males average about 4 pounds, females almost 4 1/2 pounds. Females are also bigger and heavier, and so would be a little harder for human actors to handle. (One of the owls playing Hedwig was also the very first cast member to be chosen!!) You can tell that the owl playing Hedwig in the photo is really a male because his plumage is so white-female Snowy Owls have dark markings.
She’s a female but, in the movie, the actors playing her are males.
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