Both owls hoot, then the male starts adding a few short, extra notes. As he flies down to a proposed nest on the right (from 0:30), he gives a continuous, rather breathless hooting with higher-pitched chitters interspersed.
The female does not follow him this time, but comes a little closer without visiting the nest.ĭick has often visited nests to ring the young. Besides devil’s cackles, he tells me that some angry females may give a loud, monosyllabic ‘crack’, a sign that they are ‘losing it completely’. Nevertheless, this is a fairly shy species that rarely attacks humans.
As opportunistic hunters, Eurasian Eagle-Owls will take mammals up to the size of a Brown Hare Lepus europaeus or even a young Red Fox Vulpes vulpes (eg, Olsson 1979). They often take other owls and raptors, with Common Buzzard Buteo buteo and Long-eared Owl Asio otus among their favourites (Mikkola 1983).
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