The Northern Hawk Owl is a diurnal, perch-hunting owl with a long tail and fast, direct flight that looks more like a hawk than an owl in the field. It has no ear tufts and a round, black-bordered facial disc. It irrupts south of the boreal zone in winter when small mammal populations crash, sometimes hunting openly on highway verges.
Habitat
Open boreal forests and muskegs
Diet
Voles, mice, lemmings, and small birds
How common
Rare
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