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What is the difference between an owl and a newt?

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At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, pupils have to complete the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams before selecting the subjects they want to continue for N.E.W.T. level, which is the highest merit that they can achieve. They pick the subjects at the start of their sixth year, providing they achieved the O.W.L. read more

Owl is a bird: warm-blooded, feathers, can fly, incubates its eggs with its body heat. Newt is an amphibian: cold-blooded, has two life stages - aquatic gill breathing larval stage (tadpole) and terrestrial air-breathing adult stage, does not incubate its eggs, no feathers. There are many other differences but these are the main ones. read more

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An owl's eyes are both set facing front, like a human's are, and a hawk's eyes’s, like those of most birds, are set on the sides of it's head. Because of this, an owl must turn it's head to see to its sides and rear, but hawk's can see to the front and both sides without turning it's head. read more

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Ordinary Wizarding Level
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OWLs and NEWTs
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