Do owls eat snakes?

Yes, owls eat any small animals they can catch. In their diet, there are insects and other small invertebrates, fish, frogs, snakes, birds, mice and so on.

There are 130 kinds of owls. It is distributed on all continents except Antarctica. Most species are nocturnal carnivores. Their food is mainly rodents, but there are also insects, birds, lizards, fish and other animals. The bird of this order has a wide head, a short and thick mouth, a hook-shaped front end, a face-disk-shaped arrangement of feathers at the front of the head, and some kinds of feathers are ear-shaped. The distribution of feathers in eyes, panels and ears makes the head of this bird very similar to that of a cat, so it is commonly known as an owl. Alias cat eagle.

Subject classification:

At present, it is divided into three families: owl, grass owl and owl "ch and xi ā o" family. The original owl family has been extinct; There are 10 species in the world and 3 species in China. There are 126 species in the world and 24 species in China, such as carved owl, snipe and long-eared owl. All ostriches in China are second-class national protected animals.

Extended data:

Owls in China are all national second-class protected animals, and it is illegal to hunt owls.

Related case: A man who set Skynet to hunt four owls was sentenced.

The man privately set up "Skynet" to hunt wild animals, but he fell into the French Open. On April 8, the People's Court of Wuning County, Jiangxi Province sentenced the defendant Zhu to 2 years' imprisonment, suspended for 3 years and fined 20,000 yuan for the crime of illegally hunting precious and endangered wild animals.

Around 20 13, 10, Zhu set up a "skynet" to hunt wild animals in the field behind his house without going to hunting license. At 9 o'clock on February 23, 65438, Zhu hunted 4 land birds. After identification, all four kinds of terrestrial birds are owls, belonging to the second-class national key protected wild animals. On the same day, Zhu was arrested by the forest police when he was ready to sell, and four owls were detained on the spot and released the next day.

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People's Daily Online-A man who set up Skynet to hunt four owls was sentenced.