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By: Taylor H.

The Northern Spotted Owl is one of the three Spotted Owl subspecies. They can spread their wings forty-two inches. The Northern Spotted Owls have oval white spots on their head and are dark brown. The Northern Spotted Owls are very protective and reproduce at two years of age. Males and females mate in February and March. The female can lay up to two or three eggs. Then the female sits the eggs in an incubation process for 30 days. The Northern Spotted Owls live in old growth trees and the lumber companies cut down 80% of all trees that the Spotted Owls used to live in. The Northern Spotted Owl has a diet of mainly woodrats and flying squirrels although it will also eat other small mammals like birds, insects, and reptiles. They live in the states of Oregon, California and Washington. It nests in platforms or on cavities in large trees and will use abandoned nests of other species. Spotted owls mate for life and remain in the same geographical areas year after year. They are endangered because of the lumber companies cutting huge stands of old growth forests. We can save them by managemant actions in setting aside stands of old growth forests for the owls to inhabit.