2006-10-29 14:52:41 · 9 answers · asked by melo1819 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
For one they feed on rodents, and keep their populations in check.
2006-10-29 14:56:43 · answer #1 · answered by thegreenman_sofla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Owls are very good at keeping small animal populations under control. If they weren't there, many animals such as rats, mice, lizards and small birds, would eat themselves into starvation due to uncontrolled breeding.
Owls are also good at fertilizing the dirt by leaving their turds everywhere. Also, the pellets they cough up that contain the skeletons and fur of animals they ate are great for compost. Many animals will also use the pellets for bedding and a source of calcium. Rats and mice especially will chew on the bones and skulls left in owl pellets as a source of calcium and will use the fur as bedding.
Smaller, desert dwelling owls are important to the life cycle large cactus. The owls will help fertilize flowers by sitting among the flowers. They help control the rodents that would destroy the plants and the owls make use of the older cacti by nesting among the protective thorns.
Owls do more than this but for the sake of space I've kept my information short ^.^
2006-10-30 03:56:21 · answer #2 · answered by white_ravens_white_crows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fans of owls are the naturalists and artists who paint them. Generally farmers do not like them and consider them predators. If you have met an owl personally you would be truly scared of them.
Owls are part of the natural order of things. They keep down the population of small rodents and snakes.
2006-10-29 15:10:01 · answer #3 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they predate on small rodents, without the owl small rodents would be over populated and they would be all over the place. plus owls are mainly nocturnal (in Britain anyway) where as most other raptors are diurnal (daytime hunters) so the kestrels take care of the job in the day, the owls take over at night.
2006-10-30 08:51:13 · answer #4 · answered by Aquila 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Owls have many benefits:
they benefit numerous other grassland dependent wildlife species
they improve the natural control of rats and mice in farmyards, fields and marshes
and if that weren't enough, the excitement and experience of seeing this beautiful bird in its natural habitat is incomparable.
2006-10-30 05:18:19 · answer #5 · answered by professor grey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alluding to the possibility that the planet would be overrun with rodents? Some people don't give a hoot but you and I do, right?
2006-10-29 14:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by Beejee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they help keep the earth from being over run by rats, mice etc..they do a good job except when then steal my newborn baby goats..
2006-10-29 15:01:04 · answer #7 · answered by jst4pat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
symbol of death in many cultures
without death there can't be life, so that helps the earth
2006-10-29 14:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by slippped 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they eat rodents! we have one that dives into my pond and catches large fish
2006-10-29 18:25:58 · answer #9 · answered by Loollea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋