Useless Fact Of The Week

A medium-large owl, the Ural Owl, is smaller than The Great Grey Owl and larger than a Tawny Owl (whom it closely resembles). The 15 subspecies of this owl live in Europe and Asia. These nocturnal birds have no ear tufts and dark eyes. They are gray or gray with streaks of brown. All have a whitish-grey underside. 

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Useless Fact Of The Week

Owls eyes are fixed in their sockets. They are unable to move their eyes within their sockets and therefore must turn their heads to see around them. Owls have well-developed binocular vision as a result.