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Show Owl in Squirrel Nest The long-eared owl is of medium size with extremely long ear tufts. They live throughout temperate North America and breed south to Virginia, 1 Arkansas, northern Texas and southern south-ern California, spend the winter in most of their range and south to central cen-tral Mexico. The nest, says Nature Magazine, may be that of some large bird or a squirrel, carelessly repaired; it is usually in a dense growth of evergreen ever-green trees and placed from ten to twenty feet up. They are very beneficial, bene-ficial, for their food consists larjely of meadow mice and other small mammals, mam-mals, insects, spiders, crayfish, small snakes; frogs, snails and earthworms are known to be taken as well. |