Powerful Owl

The Powerful Owl, Ninox strenua, is a magnificent large, solid owl standing 50 to 65 cm tall, with piercing yellow eyes and massive yellow legs and feet. The adult upper body is dark brown with white / brown barring. The under body is dull white with brown chevrons from its throat to vent. It is capable of silent flight because of large broad wings with softened trailing edges to the flight feathers, enabling it to glide up to, and kill, large arboreal mammals and strong enough to fly away with them. Its large forward pointing eyes give them binocular vision but makes them immovable in the skull, a feature overcome by flexible neck muscles, which gives it the ability to rotate its head through a maximum of 270 degrees. Power owls can be found through Venman's National Park.