Height 2" Width 1" weight 2 oz. The great horned owl is a nightime hunter with keen eyesight, acute hearing, and are silent in their flight. Its powerful talons strike and grip prey, and its sharp hooked beak is perfect for tearing flesh from its kill. It eats most of the animals it kills, then regurgitates fur, feathers, bones, and other indigestible animal remains in pellet form. The pellets are found beneath its feeding roost. Not other bird has as much mystery and mythology surrounding it. To the Ancient Greeks, it was a symbol of higher wisdom. Early Christian Gnostics associated the owl with Lility, the first wife of Adam who refused to be submissive to him. The Pawnee saw the owl as a symbol of protection, but the Ojibwa and Peublo Indians associated the owl with death. Owls blink like humans, closing their upper eyelids, but their eyes can't move. Their flexible necks give them a wide range of peripheral vision.