Role Playing Owls

Role Playing An Owl

1) Understanding Owl Groups

The Owls On This Site Are Split Into Three.
Loners, Sunset Owls, And Blizzard Owls.

These Are The Groups Of Owls. You Must Be Loyal. It's Like School. You Must Stay Unless Your Kicked Out. Being A Loner Means You Fly By Yourself, You Do Not Belong To A Group.

2) The Ranks Of Owl Groups;

Head: The Leader Of The Group, Like The Principal Of A School
2nd In Command: Helps The Head. (Like a deputy.)
Healer Owl: Heals all the wounded group owls (Like a meddie)
Healer Student: In Training Healing Owl (Like a meddie apprentice)
Guardians: The Fighters/Hunters Of The Clan (Like a warrior)
Retirements: Retired Guardians (Like elders, they have chosen to retire from hunting and guarding there group.)
Students: In Training Guardians (Like apprentice's, training to be warrior's, in this case, guardians.)
Owlets: Baby owls. Become a student after 5 seasons. (Whever the head thinks your ready.)
TRs: (Top Retirements) The Eldest Owls Of The Group.
Strike Owls: Owls that are expecting owlets and or raising owlets. (Strike means they are retiring from hunting and fighting until there kits become students.)

3) Style Of RP

Some People RP Like This: A large owl bursts through the tree hollow. "Owlets!" He hooted in delight
Or: *Bursts Into The Tree Hollow* Owlets! *Hoots in delight*
Or the atrixes could be replaced with -, ^, +, >, ~ or anything you want! Many people prefer owls that RP with correct grammar. xD

4) Understanding the ways of being an owl

Being a group owl means you must stick to your clan, fight for it, and never betray it. You can create your own little battle moves, EG: Raking your claws at other owls
You can have special features like a metal claw, a metal part around your shin/foot from the long legs (( See 5)) or even no feathers! You have to respect any type of retirement in your group.

5) Owl Dictionary

Rotting Food- Rotten food
Long Legs- Humans
Roaring Machines- Cars
Owned Owl- An owl owned by a long leg
Chuff Box- House

6) Prey.

Owl Food: What do Owls eat? Owls are Birds of Prey, which means that they must kill other animals to survive. Their diet includes invertebrates (such as insects, spiders, earthworms, snails and crabs), fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and small mammals.

The main food largely depends on the species of Owl. For example, Scops and Screech Owls feed on insects mostly, while Barn Owls eat mainly mice, shrews and voles. Larger Owls such as the Eagle Owl will prey upon hares, young foxes and birds up to the size of ducks and gamebirds. Some species have specialised in fishing, such as the Asian Fish Owls and African Fishing Owls. Although certain species have these preferences for food type, most owls are opportunistic, and will take whatever prey is available in the area.

Hunting: How do owls catch their food? Owls generally have a hunting territory away from their daytime roost.
All Owls are equipped with special adaptations that make them efficient predators. Keen eyesight allows them locate quarry even on dim nights. Sensitive, directional hearing helps locate concealed prey. Some species can even hunt in complete darkness using sound alone to guide them to a successful kill. An Owl's flight is silenced by special wing feathers, that muffle the sound of the air rushing over the surface of the wing. This allows an Owl to hunt by stealth, taking their victims by surprise. It also allows the Owl to listen for prey movements while still flying.

Most species hunt from a perch, such as a low branch, stump or fence post. They will wait for prey to appear, and swoop down with open wings, and their talons stretched forward. Some species will fly or glide a little way from the perch before dropping on the victim. In some cases, the Owl may simply drop on the target, opening their wings at the last moment.

Other species prefer to soar, or make quartering flights, scanning the ground below for a suitable meal. When a target is located, the Owl will fly towards it, keeping its head in line with it until the last moment. This is when the Owl pulls its head back, and thrusts its feet forward with the talons spread wide - two pointing backwards and two forwards.
The force of the impact is usually enough to stun the prey, which is then dispatched with a snap of the beak.

Owls can adapt their hunting techniques depending on the type of prey. Insects and small birds may be snatched in mid air, sometimes after being flushed from the cover of trees or bushes by the Owl.
Owls that catch fish may skim over water, snatching fish on the fly (Pel's Fishing Owl) or, the may perch at the water's edge, grabbing any fish or crayfish that surfaces nearby (Blakiston's Fish Owl). Other species may wade into the water to chase fish, water snakes, crayfish or frogs.

Once caught, smaller prey is carried away in the bill, or eaten immediately. Larger prey is carried off in the talons. An Owl may also adopt a posture known as mantling, shielding the prey with the wings in an apparent attempt to hide it from other predators.

7) Where do Owls live

Owls live groups or by themselves. This sites groups settled in abandoned castles. Castles supply hollows around them, for sleeping places. They offer a variety of floors and platforms, but the main one is displayed as the platform, the rest are displayed as 'Ground'. The floors are for training or hanging out. Hunting areas, owls share. They store all there food in a food floor. The platform is for battle, hangout, etc.