Month: October 2019

In the early 1950s there was an outbreak of malaria in Borneo. Because Malaria is a deadly disease cause by mosquitoes  they sprayed DDT everywhere to kill them. BUT in results of spraying the DDT everywhere the parasitic wasps! By killing the parasitic wasps the thatch-eating caterpillars went out of control! Because DDT didn’t effect them. The thatch-eating caterpillars were so much thatch roofs that they fell down on the people! To make matters worse the geckoes that ate the caterpillars were now infected by the poison too! Even though it didn’t harm the geckoes it did harm the cats who eat the geckoes! Now that cats population was decreasing the rat population was increasing! Because the rat population increased the people of Borneo was threaten by a new disease, plague and Typhus disease. Now that all this chaos happened the world health organisation ( WHO ) decided to parachute cats into Borneo to kill the rats.

Dear Miss Cuttatree,

   I am a Megascops asio if you don’t understand that then I’m an Eastern screech owl.

You can call me Screechy. Here’s a photo of me.

Beautiful isn’t it?

If you can’t tell I have two yellow eyes, and I have brown feathers. Other owls in my group can be gray too.

If you don’t remember  you wanted to cut down one hundred acres of trees! 

 Did you know that my nesting place is in this forest. If you cut down it you will also cover up, or chop down the holes dug by squirrels and woodpeckers. It’s very dry there, and it’s very hard to find them, but that’s where I live. If you destroy my habitat there’s a good chance that you will wipe out most of my population. That would be VERY rude..                                                                                             FACTS. 

Also my sweet delicious meat lives here. Like Earthworms, Insects, Flycatchers, Woodpeckers, and more! And did you ever think about about our babies?!?! We have kids too! Our clutch size is 2-6 eggs! They’re 3.4-3.6 Cm too!  I’m only 15 Cm tall! But we can be up to 25 Cm. I’m one of the short ones.

If you haven’t changed your mind yet I’ll just say this… We won’t go down without a fight! Did you know that our wingspan is 53.34 cm, and we weigh around 155 grams. 

Which is equivalent to ½ a can of soda. Even though we don’t weigh a lot we will use our wings to fight.  Did you know I make a trill sound and that’s why I’m called a screech owl. I hope this letter changes your mind. 

From a not so happy

-Screechy

Links

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/lifehistory

lhttps://www.warnernaturecenter.org/animals/screechowl