Well for me, it's partly their faces, which look like a Japanese spirit mask to me, and partly this— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_LhGoHN0m8. read more
Owls eat a lot of rodents. A single barn owl family will eat 3000 rodents in a four-month breeding cycle. One owl can eat 50 pounds of gophers in a year. Many farmers are installing owl nesting boxes in the hopes that owls will clean out pests like gophers and voles from their land. read more