Environment officials have allowed a farmer in a small village in Cotabato province to take care of two juvenile female Eastern grass owls found in his farm lot in Makilala town. | via Edwin O. Fernandez/PDI
Khadija Bayam Benpolok, head of the regional strategic communication and initiatives group of DENR in Soccsksargen, said they found the owls to be healthy and did not want to move them to the DENR wildlife rescue center to avoid stressing the animals.
As long as the site was secured and properly identified as a nesting site of the birds, the owls could stay within the area, Benpolok said. The grass owl’s most common prey are farm rats; hence, they usually thrive in rodent-infested farms. The owl uses its long legs to penetrate the thick grass where their prey usually hide. Owls are nocturnal animals; hence, they sleep during the day and hunt food at night, the DENR said.
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