HORNED OWLS 



sticks and rubbish. In many cases tlie bird 

 remodels a nest built by another hawk, a 

 crow or squirrel. 



The favorite haunts of the Cooper hawk 

 are moderately timbered districts inter- 

 spersed with cultivated fields and meadows, 

 but it is also found in the more extensive and 

 heavily wooded mountain regions, and on 

 the open treeless plains of the West where its 

 nest may be found placed in low willows 

 along streams and in rare instances on the 

 ground. 



The Cooper hawk is never a common bird 

 in the West, being far more abundant east of 

 the Rockies. 



FAMILY STRIGID^: HORNED OWLS 



3^^ Long-eared owl, Asio wilsonianus. 



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Distribution: Temperate North America 

 from Newfoundland to southern Alaska, and 

 south to the southern border of the United 

 States. Winters over the greater part of its 

 range and southward into Mexico. 



The long-eared owl lives in dense woods 



where it hides in the day and hunts at night. 



Because of its habits it is seldom seen. Its 



food consists of rats and mice and other 



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