[bright music] - [Narrator] Many false ideas have unfortunately given owls a bad reputation and people often misunderstood their environmental importance and role.

While they might have big eyes, hoot, and make other noises during different times of the day and fly silently, these are all important adaptations that allow owls to survive.

Lots of people also think owls can turn their head all the way around, but that's just a myth.

With 14 neck bones, that's twice as many as humans, the extra bones allow owls to turn their head 270 degrees, or three quarters of a circle.

Their eyes are so big that they can't move them from side to side like we can.

They can only look straight ahead.

That's why they have to turn their whole head to look around.

In our children's zoo, we have two burrowing owls.

This small species spends its time often on the ground hiding out in their burrows or protecting the entrance.

They may dig the burrows themselves or take over a space left behind by prairie dogs, ground squirrels or tortoises.

Cowboys sometimes used to call them howdy birds because it seemed they would nod their head in greeting as they passed.

They're helpful birds because they eat a lot of insect species and will pick off venomous critters like scorpions and centipedes.

We also have three adorable Texas natives, our Eastern screech owls.

Guinevere is our newest screech owl and was named after Lady Guinevere from the Arthurian legends.

She's a young owl and she's training to take part in free flight performances.

Since owls need trees to live, it's important for us to conserve paper.

At the zoo, we're continuing our efforts to save forests and the animals that live in them like owls by using recycled content toilet paper.

The average household uses 120 rolls of toilet paper each year.

That's one roll every three days.

27,000 trees are cut down every single day to provide toilet paper for the world.

These trees are important habitat for animals like chimpanzees, macaws, and owls.

By using recycled content toilet paper, we can all help save important animal habitats.