{"id":797,"date":"2014-02-05T23:44:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aqua13.minchacademy.net\/?p=351"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:14:46","slug":"barn-owls-dont-only-live-in-barns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/2014\/02\/05\/barn-owls-dont-only-live-in-barns\/","title":{"rendered":"Barn Owls don’t only live in barns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that barn owls have asymmetric ears to help them to hear their prey or that they can open and close their ears using a pink flap of skin or that a group of owls is called a parliament? Well, our class do! We have been finding out\u00c2\u00a0fascinating facts\u00c2\u00a0about barn owls in class, reading the story The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and learning to retell a report about barn owls.
\nTo extend learning we were very lucky, yesterday,\u00c2\u00a0to have a visit from Mrs Barn Owl and her keeper Ian, from Wild Owl. It was a fantastic experience for us all, especially when Mrs Barn Owl flew across the room. Many of us were sure that we could feel her wings touching us as she flew over our heads!
\nWe all sat really well listening to Ian, answering his questions and asking some of our own.\u00c2\u00a0Hugo was brave enough to take the talon test to check whether Mrs Barn Owl’s talons were really as sharp as we thought and he said that they felt spiky.\u00c2\u00a0 Ian\u00c2\u00a0demonstrated how owls have silent flight by flapping a pigeon’s feather, which was very noisy and then an owl’s feather which flapped silently.<\/p>\n

The most important lesson that we learnt is that barn owls are not pets but belong in the wild and it\u00c2\u00a0is up to us all to ensure that they continue to thrive in\u00c2\u00a0UK. \u00c2\u00a0To help owls to survive we can put up owl boxes for them to nest in and leave grass to grow long\u00c2\u00a0to provide a habitat for\u00c2\u00a0the owl’s favourite dinner;\u00c2\u00a0 the field vole.<\/p>\n

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Did you know that barn owls have asymmetric ears to help them to hear their prey or that they can open and close their ears using a pink flap of skin or that a group of owls is called a parliament? Well, our class do! We have been finding out\u00c2\u00a0fascinating facts\u00c2\u00a0about barn owls in class, … Continue reading “Barn Owls don’t only live in barns!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}