The morepork/ruru

What time does the morepork breed ?

 Moreporks breed in summer and spring Nests are usually placed within cavities of live or dead trees, within broken logs, in a tree fork or within a hole in an earth bank, including in petrel burrows.

Are they herbivores or meateaters?

The morepork is not a herbivore because it eats mammals . the Moreporks catch and consume a wide variety of small animals, including large insects, small birds, and small mammals. The diet varies with season, generally in proportion to abundance of prey species. Insects taken include huhu beetles, weta, cicadas and large moths. And it does not eat any herbs

Where was these birds found?

The morepork

is the only remaining native bird in New

zealand apart from the barn owl Moreporks are widely distributed throughout the native and exotic forests of New Zealand. They are uncommon in the drier eastern regions of the South Island, especially south of Christchurch. They also occur in more open areas where suitable patches of vegetation remain including sparsely-wooded farmland, and within some urban parks and gardens

What do they eat mostly ?

Large insects and wetas and small mammals as mice and little rats and

littler birds Also moths and Cicadas and lots of bugs that it can find

And any small mammals it can digest properly

Are they endangered?

The morepork is not endangered still

Today because it is a predator and it's only Fear is humans

And it is rare in towns it's more in the mountains

how many eggs do they lay ?

The female morepork lays 1-3

Eggs takes about 25 days, and chicks fledge

when about 7 weeks old. Both adults feed

the young. And it takes baby bird takes about

25 days to break open