The Northern hawk owl is a medium-sized bird with three subspecies.
The Northern hawk owl can move and forage during the day, especially in the early morning and evening. The call of "hu, hu" is relatively monotonous, but very pleasant to the ear. It flies quickly, sometimes flapping its wings and sometimes gliding, often alternating between the two, especially when foraging. When resting, it mostly perches on the top of trees or electric poles, and swoops down when it sees prey. Sometimes it also hunts in flight, or flies close to the ground and pounces on prey, or glides in the sky and swoops down after finding prey. Its call is similar to that of eagles. It mainly feeds on rodents.
The fierce owl is a winter migratory bird in the northeast and a summer migratory bird in Xinjiang.
The breeding season of the fierce owl is from April to July. It nests in the holes at the top of dead trees, and also uses the old nests of birds such as crows and magpies. Each nest lays 3 to 13 eggs, mostly 3 to 9 eggs, and the number of eggs in a nest varies greatly. The size is 36 to 44 mm × 29 to 34 mm. After the first egg is laid, the female bird begins to incubate the eggs.
It is one of the endangered species in the world and one of the species on the United Nations' List of Endangered Wildlife.
It is listed as a second-class protected animal in China.
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