Where do Barn Owls live? – Missing word puzzle
Can you find the missing words?
The places where wild animals and birds choose to live is called their habitat.
Here are 10 facts about wild Barn Owl habitat – but each of these sentences has lost a vital word – can you figure out what’s missing?
1. Barn Owls nest in all sorts of countryside buildings, rock crevices or even hollow trees – not just b_ _ _ _!
2. Barn Owls like to n_ _ _ and roost (rest) where they are dry and high up, hidden out of sight.
3. Most wild Barn Owls in the UK live in specially built n_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
4. The safest nestbox design is at least 460mm deep so that baby o_ _ _ _ _ don’t fall out before they can fly.
5. Barn Owls prefer perching on w_ _ _, which is warmer than metal or stone.
6. In Britain many Barn Owls live in old farm b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, often using the same nesting places for hundreds of years.
7. Barn Owls have lived near people since f_ _ _ _ _ _ began about 5,500 years ago.
8. Barn owls live near where they can catch enough food, especially v_ _ _ _ and mice.
9. Barn Owls like to hunt over open fields with rough
tussocky g_ _ _ _ rather than among trees.
10. Countryside that is good for Barn Owls is also good for lots of other w_ _ _ _ _ _ _ such as other birds, insects and small mammals.
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