An apparent consequence of the evolution of an absolutely large eye in a relatively small skull is that the eye of the owl has become tubular in shape. In some tribal legends, owls are associated with spirits of the dead, and the bony circles around an owl's eyes are said to comprise the fingernails of apparitional humans. The largest owls are two similarly sized eagle owls; the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) and Blakiston's fish owl ( Bubo blakistoni). In Hinduism, an owl is the vahana (mount) of the goddess Lakshmi, especially in the eastern region of India.

RPS, a Tetra Tech company

Owls possess large, forward-facing eyes and ear-holes, a hawk-like beak, a flat face, and usually a conspicuous circle of feathers, a facial disc, around each eye. Hearing A great horned owl perched on the top of a Joshua tree at evening ( twilight) in the Mojave Desert, U.Since owls can be found in nearly all parts of the world and across a multitude of ecosystems, their hunting skills and characteristics vary slightly from species to species, though most characteristics are shared among all species. Owls are divided into two families: the true (or typical) owl family, Strigidae, and the barn-owl family, Tytonidae. Design, technical and advisory services for the property sector, including residential, commercial, retail, industrial, health, education and data centre projects.

Owl - Wikipedia Owl - Wikipedia

Solutions for the water sector including quality monitoring, modelling, infrastructure design, engineering and asset management. Around the Paleogene-Neogene boundary (some 25 Mya), barn owls were the dominant group of owls in southern Europe and adjacent Asia at least; the distribution of fossil and present-day owl lineages indicates that their decline is contemporary with the evolution of the different major lineages of true owls, which for the most part seems to have taken place in Eurasia. Based in the United Kingdom, Andy is leading the RPS subsurface business development programme, navigating the energy transition as we support our oil and gas clients to thrive in a low-carbon economy. An owl's talons, like those of most birds of prey, can seem massive in comparison to the body size outside of flight. This optimizes the owl's ability to silently fly to capture prey without the prey hearing the owl first as it flies, and to hear any noise the prey makes.Another popular theory suggests that females have not been selected to be smaller like male owls because of their sexual roles.

Bristol | RPS

Left Strigidae: Tawny owl ( Strix aluco), Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo), Little owl ( Athene noctua), Northern saw-whet owl ( Aegolius acadicus); Right Tytonidae: Barn owl ( Tyto alba), Lesser sooty owl ( Tyto multipunctata), Tasmanian masked owl ( Tyto novaehollandiae castanops), Sri Lanka bay owl ( Phodilus assimilis).Although owls have binocular vision, their large eyes are fixed in their sockets—as are those of most other birds—so they must turn their entire heads to change views.