The Short Eared Owl is an excellent long distance flyer. It can be found in parts of Africa, both Americas, including the Caribbean and Galapagos, Asia, and Europe. It's even made it all the way to Hawaii and is still found occasionally on ships far out to sea.
The Shortie may not always appear to have ear tufts-they are indeed very short! It is medium sized and fairly stocky. It soars over open ground hunting mainly small mammals, and it is also a ground nester, finding a nice secluded divot usually next to some foliage for cover.
It is also famous for its mating display, soaring high and then clapping its wings to get the attention of the lady owls.
This owl comes dressed to impress with its bold looks and is seeking your vote today.
The Barking Owl, aka Barking Boobook or Winking Owl, is native to Australia and a few surrounding areas. As you may have guessed, it is known for its dog-like barking, though it has a range of vocalizations.
The Barking Owl has one of the most diverse diets of any Australian owl, taking mice, bats, sugar gliders, possums (not the same as opossums!), and rabbits.
Though not as dramatic in appearance as the Short Eared, it still has that great Boobook profile, and some great facial expressions. Will the darling from Down Under get your vote today?
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It does sound pretty dog-like!
In french, the deer and animals alike also make a sound called a bark, although it is not the most commun one. Is it also the same in english?
In English, I'm used to calling the male call a grunt and the female is a bleat.
In my part of the country we have almost exclusively White-tailed Deer, but Google tells me France has many types of other deer, so they may make completely different sounds.
I may have made some translation imprecision here. I know that the Chevreuil can bark. And I find videos of it and of Biche barking on YouTube but the cerf the big heavy deer are not featured barking. So I don't know...
I finally got to look up the Chevreuil sound and that is definetly a bark! That sounds so crazy coming from a deer!
Interesting. In French the most commun name for the deer sound is the "brame", I'm not a nature expert but it seems to be a third sound that barking and grunting. Here is a link : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_SuGQvrF2yw&pp=ygUNYnJhbWUgZHUgY2VyZg%3D%3D
Would you call it grunt? I think they do this one in the matting season.
That is a crazy sound!
This is a Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)?
"Roar" seems to be the term for it in English Google.
I also did not know they were bigger than our deer. Our west coast has elk, which are larger and have a bugle call, and we have moose up north that are huge.
Well Cervus elaphus (I don't know much about it, I'm figuring things out and latin name using wikipédia as we speak along) is bigger than Chevreuil (Capreolus capreolus) but I believe it is smaller than Alces and Rangifer tarandus. I say I believe because this is all based on vague feeling I have from reading encylopedia and watching documentary as a child. I have no real experience on this.