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Owls – Silent And Effective boxes. Burrowing owls and most other animals. Instead, they can rotate their heads up
Owls cannot move their eyes in their eye sockets like humans
live in areas with wide-
Predators open spaces and little to 270 degrees (not 360 degrees like sometimes believed) in
vegetation and spend order to view their surroundings. The unusually high number
By Katie Roundtree, most of their time on the of light-sensitive cells in their eyes, their large pupils, and a
Finance Director, Northern ground or in burrows. reflective layer behind the retina give them excellent nocturnal
Palm Beach County Each of the species vision, useful when hunting at night or navigating dark forests.
Improvement District have their own distinctive Their ability to locate prey by sound alone is the most
Florida is home to five characteristics, but they accurate of any animal that has ever been tested. Owls can catch
resident species of owls, all have one thing in mice in complete darkness in the lab, or find prey hidden by
including the barn owl, barred common, they are vegetation or snow out in the real world. Their ears are placed
owl, burrowing owl, eastern voracious eaters and can consume thousands of small rodents unevenly on their head and point in slightly different directions,
screech owl and great horned in a year. Because of this, they are a welcome addition in giving the ability to hear where a sound is coming from without
owl. The largest of these owls most farms and neighborhoods. Owls are mainly nocturnal moving their heads. Owls can also funnel sound toward their
is the great horned owl, which creatures and have developed some amazing adaptations to be ears by manipulating different types of feathers around the ears
is generally 18 to 25 inches successful hunters, such as the ability to rotate their heads 270 and face.
tall, followed by the barred owl and barn owl. The eastern degrees, ears that are offset on the sides of their head in order to They are silent predators. Both primary and secondary
screech owl and burrowing owls are the smaller species and pinpoint location of prey, the ability to control feathers on their feathers have comb-like structures at the edge of the feather that
measure only about 6 to 10 inches tall. All but the burrowing dish-shaped face to direct sounds into their ears, and comb-like are responsible for muffling the sound of the air going over the
owl prefer to live high in trees, in either tree cavities or nesting structures on their feathers to silence them in flight. wing – this essentially makes an owl virtually silent in flight. In
addition, an owl’s feathers can separate from each other on the
Town Of Jupiter News same wing; therefore, the air flows over each of the individual
feathers and their comb-like structures, which maximizes how
silently owls fly.
By Ilan Kaufer, receipt, saving Town businesses approximately $400,000. Most of these species of owls are fairly common, however,
Jupiter Vice Mayor 1115 Cherokee Street (The Brooker House) Historic the burrowing owl is Florida’s only state-designated threatened
I hope everyone is having Application species of owl. Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus
a great start to the fall season. The Town Council approved an application for local historic was designated as a burrowing owl sanctuary in 1971 and even
Please find below a few designation for the circa 1943 single-family house located at 1115 though the campus has expanded, breeding pairs still exist on
updates from recent council Cherokee St., also known as the Brooker House, and approved the grounds.
meetings. a Historic Preservation Grant application for the site. Next time you’re outside in wooded areas around dawn or
Income-Qualified Senior Recreational Vehicle Beach Parking dusk, look up; or if you’re in an open area, watch your step and
Citizen Homestead The Town Council amended the Town Code to prohibit keep an eye out for ground burrows. You may be lucky enough to
Exemption parking along the A1A corridor from 12 to 5 a.m., to impose catch a glimpse of one of nature’s most accomplished predators.
The Town Council a citation and fine for those found in violation, to establish an NPDES tip: Please pick up after your pet. When pet waste is
amended an existing ordinance appeals process for the citation, to define the boundaries of the washed into lakes or canals the waste decays, using up oxygen
to authorize an additional $25,000 homestead exemption to A1A corridor, and to allow for a higher parking violation fine. and sometimes releasing ammonia. Low oxygen levels and
certain income-qualified senior citizens living in the Town of Thank you for keeping up to date on these activities. Please ammonia combined with warm temperatures can kill fish. Pet
Jupiter. make sure to follow me on social media on Facebook at www. waste also contains nutrients that encourage weed and algae
Business Tax Receipts Elimination facebook.com/kauferfl and on Twitter @CouncilorKaufer for growth. Perhaps most importantly, it is considered a significant
The Town Council repealed the section of the Town Code more frequent updates. If you have any comments, questions, source of pathogens like fecal coliform, a disease-causing
for the collection of business tax receipts. This will eliminate or concerns, about these initiatives or any other Town matters, bacteria.
the need for town businesses to pay the Town for a business tax please email me at ilank@jupiter.fl.us. Source: Cornell University Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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