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Photo courtesy of Paul Sundberg

Photo courtesy of Paul Sundberg

With wing spans of up to four feet, and considered the largest owl in the world by length, Great Gray Owls are certainly impressive. In this picture you can see the facial disc that gathers the sound and channels it back to the ears. That’s how they can hear a mouse running under a foot of snow half a football field away.

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