Powerful Owl - BirdLife Australia

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The Powerful Owl is a carnivore, eating mainly medium to large tree-dwelling mammals, particularly the Common Ringtail Possum,Pseudocheirus peregrinus, and the Great Glider. It will also take roosting birds and sometimes small ground-dwelling mammals such as rabbits or small marsupials. It forages mainly in trees, swooping down on prey and ...

Powerful owl - Wikipedia

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The powerful owl (Ninox strenua), a species of owl native to south-eastern and eastern Australia, is the largest owl on the continent. ... The most largely taken prey species in many regions are adults of common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) which can weigh around 700 g (1.5 lb).

Look up! A powerful owl could be sleeping in your backyard after a ...

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Powerful owl at roost with half a common ringtail possum (probably saving it for later). Nick Bradsworth. These owls have traditionally been thought to live only in large old-growth forested areas ...

Powerful Owl - The Australian Museum

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The Powerful Owl is a carnivore, eating mainly medium to large tree-dwelling mammals, particularly the Common Ringtail Possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus, and the Great Glider. It will also take roosting birds and sometimes small ground-dwelling mammals such as rabbits or small marsupials. It forages mainly in trees, swooping down on prey and ...

Fact File: Powerful owl (Ninox strenua) - Australian Geographic

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The powerful owl is closely related to the barking owl ... Medium-sized tree-dwelling marsupials are the preferred source of food, with the greater glider, common ringtail possum and sugar glider topping the list. The powerful owl also eats other roosting birds, which make up between 10-50 per cent of their diet, depending on the ...

Powerful owl - Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre

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Powerful owl fact sheet. This animal fact sheet describes the features, habitat, adaptations and life cycle of the powerful owl. ... In one bite a powerful owl can eat a possum's head. It takes the remainder of the kill back to the roost to feed itself and its family. Scientists have found that one powerful owl may eat over 250 possums in a year.

Powerful Owl - SWIFFT

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The Powerful Owl is symbolic as being one of the supreme nocturnal predators in the forests of south-eastern Australia, it is the largest species of owl in Australia and its presence as a high level predator may serve as an indicator of forest h ... Powerful Owl feeding on Ring-tailed Possum in remnant habitat trees in the Panmure area ...

Powerful owls › Nature Features (ABC Science)

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In one great bite the Powerful Owl can eat a possum's head. The male will then take the headless possum back to the roost and eat some more, as well as provide meat for the female and two chicks.

Powerful owls: the reason to protect remnant bushland in our cities

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Opening the back door to investigate, I saw a male powerful owl (Ninox strenua) clutching a brushtail possum in a tree. As a squadron of birds harangued him like harpies, he shot me a glance, unfurled his wide wings and launched from his perch, the dead possum dangling from his huge talons.

Powerful Owl » MEEPPA

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The Powerful Owl is Australia's largest owl. It is a nocturnal bird of prey, has a large hooked bill and powerful talons. The male at 600-660mm, is larger. Skip to content. ... Powerful Owls require the equivalent of one possum per day, per bird to survive, the young need two possums to thrive. Their mortality rate in the first year is high.
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