The Laughing Owl Report

For this week and last week we were studying NZ native animals. We had to write a report on a extinct NZ native animals, I chose the Laughing Owl. We had to use paragraphs and put our information in topics with subheadings. It was really hard to find information because The Laughing Owl is extinct and people don't know a lot about them. I enjoyed writing my report and blogging it. I think I should of put more sentences in each paragraph

Here is my report:

The laughing owl

Classification

The laughing owl is an extinct New Zealand bird that belongs to the Sceloglaux albifacies family. It got its name because it made a call that sounded like someone laughing. It was also called the white faced owl, whekau or hakoke.

Description

The laughing owl was a brownish color, it had a white face and dark orange eyes and its beak was a yellowish orange colour.The males were mostly shorter than the females. It was 40 cm high and it weighed 600 grams. Its legs were covered in feathers and it had very sharp claws. 

Habitat

It lived in the country and cliffs rather than bush and forests. They preferred to live in low rainfall areas and rocky cliff areas. It also lived in tree holes before the humans came and cut the trees down.  

Diet

The laughing owl mostly ate rodents, lizards, insects, frogs, small birds and earthworms. It sometimes ate baby tuatara. Before the humans arrived it ate some species native to New Zealand like kiwi and duck. 

Threats

Since the laughing owl nested on the ground lots of animals tried to kill it. Cats, Rats, Goats, Weasels, Stoats and ferrets were threats of the laughing owl.

Did you know that some people thought that if you played a tune on an accordion it would attract the laughing owl?

Here is the site that I found my information on:

https://sites.google.com/a/cloud.waimeaint.school.nz/newzealandendangeredspecies/home/room-7/room-7-endangered-species-project/the-laughing-owl

Ciara 

13/ 8/ 2020