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Theta is one of the more elusive and extraordinary brain states you can explore. It is also known as the twilight state which you normally only experience fleetingly upon waking, or drifting off to sleep. Theta is the brain state where magic happens in the crucible of your own neurological activity listen here for some postive vibes
youtu.be/iaDbo8Agzpg Boost your concentration, studying, creativity, memory, focus. Listen to this 8 hours long instrumental Study Music with Alpha Waves. Study Music - Study music will calm a busy mind which allows focus, concentration on the task at hand. This means you can study without difficulty or distraction, enjoy your study time and pass exams easily with top grades. We include BiNaural Beats in study music which gives massive added bonus when compared with other music. Memory retention and other cognitive abilities including focus, concentration, attention span, test results, academic life etc are greatly enhanced. Study Music from Healing4Happiness has proven results with millions of people. Our Alpha BiNaural Beat (embedded in all study music) increased grades by 72.3% in 2015. When it comes to final exam time, make sure you are listening to our music and you will get the best grades ever! Study Music for Final Exam Study Time. #StudyMusic #MusicForStudying Instrumental Music - You will find our Instrumental music to be of the highest quality on YouTube. Find a great selection of Classical Instrumental Music that is embedded with Alpha waves, making it the best instrumental music for study We also create our own ambient instrumental music for your listening pleasure. Instrumental music is perfect as background music, yoga music, study music, meditation music, concentration music, focus music, soothing music, relaxing music when you do zen, meditation, massage and relaxation. Check out more instrumental music on the Healing4Happiness channel. Subscribe to stay informed of all new releases of instumental music. #InstrumentalMusic Alpha Waves - Alpha Waves are our signature BiNaural Beat which is embedded into all Study Music produced by Healing4Happiness. These waves naturally alter your brain’s frequency to function in the Alpha Brain State. The alpha state is where Super Learning, Advanced Memory, Increased Concentration and an all round improvement in cognitive abilities easily happens. Alpha waves also create a very relaxed state so if you have been cramming or pulling a few all nighters to finish your studies, it may put you to sleep. But only because you need it! For a well rested mind the Alpha State is a relaxed state where thoughts flow easily, creativity is abundant and problem solving is done with ease. The Alpha Waves that we produce at Healing4Happiness at totally unique and 100% safe for long sessions, We have tried and tested many formulas and found this to be the MOST effective Alpha BiNaural Beat available to achieve a zen like state where reading, learning, writing and problem solving are simple and fun. Healing4Happiness produces music for Studying with alpha waves, music for relaxation with alpha waves, meditation music including alpha waves and pure alpha waves to mix with any music you like. #AlphaWaves #AlphaBiNauralBeats #AlphaMusic Concentration music - Concentration music lets you concentrate on the task that you are currently doing. One of the jobs of concentration music is to block away any distraction while you are studying or while you’re working. Concentration music will let you focus on your work and let you think better and learn better. Concentration music also helps with your memory, listening to concentration music will boost your memory retention and let you remember the information better. Concentration music also allows you to concentrate without you even noticing that you’re subconsciously meditating. Concentration music including Concentration music for study, Concentration music for better focus, Concentration music for memory retention, Concentration music for better grades. Thanks for supporting our channel! We love creating music to help people in their lives, in stressful situations, in need of rest or focus and concentration. Thanks for watching our videos, you can also follow us on other social media sites below. Join Us On Facebook: ift.tt/2a3mWaE Join Us On Twitter: twitter.com/bmusicssr Join Us On Google+: ift.tt/2a4mgFg Purchase from iTunes: ift.tt/2a3nsW9 For more information about where to purchase or listen to our music such as Spotify, Google Play, Amazon etc. checkout the “About” section of our YouTube channel. Artist or Producer Submit Music: ift.tt/2a4lN68 If you are an artist or producer and would like to grow your fan base, get more album download, have your music published on iTunes, setup a global name for yourself. Contact Healing4Happiness Music. info@healing4happiness.com Classical music piece performed by Belcea Quartet Licensed by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Music license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Website ift.tt/PKBnpk
youtu.be/mXfQoB1B-gY A very relaxing piece of music that will surely relax you. This ocean waves music is perfect to listen to while studying for an exam, or while working, or just relaxing in general. If you want to relax and go to the beach but don't have the time, this music is for you or just ocean waves relaxes you in general. I highly recommend this music. Study Music - Study music will calm a busy mind which allows focus, concentration on the task at hand. This means you can study without difficulty or distraction, enjoy your study time and pass exams easily with top grades. We include BiNaural Beats in study music which gives massive added bonus when compared to other music. Memory retention and other cognitive abilities including focus, concentration, attention span, test results, academic life etc are greatly enhanced. Study Music from Healing4Happiness has proven results with millions of people. Our Alpha BiNaural Beat (embedded in all study music) increased grades by 72.3% in 2015. When it comes to final exam time, make sure you are listening to our music and you will get the best grades ever! Study Music for Final Exam Study Time. #StudyMusic #MusicForStudying Ocean Waves Ocean Waves as we all know are one of the most relaxing sounds we could ever hear. Often times when we feel sad, anxious, overwhelmed, we often think about or go the beach or seaside to think and listen to the ocean waves. The sound of ocean waves are very consoling, easing and reassuring, we feel good and relaxed whenever we hear it. Embedded ocean waves in our study music is a perfect recipe to helps us relax while we study or just relax in general. Ocean waves including ocean waves for meditation, ocean waves for contemplation, ocean waves for relaxation, ocean waves for sleep, ocean waves for study, ocean waves for peace and calm. Subscribe for more beautiful #oceanwave music. Concentration music Concentration music lets you concentrate on the task that you are currently doing. One of the jobs of concentration music is to block away any distraction while you are studying or while you’re working. Concentration music will let you focus on your work and let you think better and learn better. Concentration music also helps with your memory, listening to concentration music will boost your memory retention and let you remember the information better. Concentration music also allows you to concentrate without you even noticing that you’re subconsciously meditating. Concentration music is great to listen to while studying or working. Concentration music including Concentration music for study, Concentration music for better focus, Concentration music for memory retention, Concentration music for study time, Concentration music for better grades. Focus Music - Focus music is a major key factor in effective learning practices. When we are able to focus on our task at hand we can easily understand the things or the information we need learn. Focus music also increases our productivity. A focused student or employee will perform better with their task or work. Listening to focus music will surely increase your attention span and you will have a better understanding. Focus music is very calming, relaxing and very much like chillout music that will relax you as you listen to the music. Focus music unlike other music, will not distract you. While listening to a focus music track, you will feel like you are subconsciously meditating while working, that is what our focus music can do. Focus music helps you focus on your work without even realizing it. Focus music, including, focus music for concentration, focus music for studying, focus music for work, zen focus music, soothing focus music, focus music for memory, focus music for clear focus. Subscribe to our channel for more great #focusmusic #focus Thanks for supporting our channel! We love creating music to help people in their lives, in stressful situations, in need of rest or focus and concentration. Thanks for watching our videos, you can also follow us on other social media site below. Join Us On Facebook: ift.tt/2a2y0VN Join Us On Twitter: twitter.com/heal4happiness/ Join Us On Google+: ift.tt/2a4mgFg Our Site: ift.tt/2aeW4rS Purchase from iTunes: ift.tt/2a3nsW9 For more information about where to purchase or listen to our music such as Spotify, Google Play, Amazon etc. check out the “About” section of our YouTube channel. Artist or Producer Submit Music: ift.tt/2a4lN68 If you are an artist or producer and would like to grow your fan base, get more album download, have your music published on iTunes, setup a global name for yourself. Contact Healing4Happiness Music. info@healing4happiness.com Copyright Healing4Happiness. All right reserved.
Beautiful instrumental study music, this piano study music, brain power music is great for concentration, memory, relaxation, reading, focus, studying, final exam, writing, creativity with BiNaural Beats the boost your learning capabilities. Download the origional track here, plus more of Dani's piano music: ift.tt/29jPjDv Artist Bio: I am Dani from Regensburg, Germany. I惴 26 years old and I惴 studying philosophy but I惴 first and foremost a musician. I play the piano since I惴 a little child and six years ago, as our band was dissolved, I started to write own pieces on the piano. I am very happy to have found my vocation as a solo piano player because I just love this instrument! I always loved the power of music and how it can bring people joy - or ease their pain - just by listening to it. That愀 magic for me; magic that can愒 be expressed with words. :) Follow Dani: ift.tt/29qMZxm www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWmGqs7QMvYQzW_RHw0yVg Final Exams - Final Exam study time is a very stressful time of year and time in your life, that's why listening to our amazing study music is perfect. Our Study music for final exam study time is designed to assist you in learning all the information you need to, in the most effective way possible. Through Alpha Waves embedded in our music your brain's rhythm will naturally be adjusted to the perfect frequency, the alpha state. With your brain in an Alpha Wave state, information is absorbed more effectively, memory retention is increased greatly and stress levels are lowered or gone entirely. #FinalExams #FinalExamStudyTime Study Music - Study music can help to calm a busy mind which allows for focus on the task at hand. This means you can study without difficulty or distraction. We also include BiNaural Beats in our tracks which gives a huge added bonus to how effective it will be. You memory retention and other cognitive abilities including focus, concentration, attention span etc will be greatly enhanced. Our Alpha BiNaural Beat has been proven to give average higher grades. This is why it will be so helpful when it comes to final exam time! Study Music for Final Exam Study Time. #StudyMusic #MusicForStudying Relaxation - With soothing tones and gentle melodies, our relaxing music is the perfect tool to wash away a stressful day. Don't wait until you need a medical (or self medicated) fix to release your anxiety, fear, worry or stress. BiNaural Beats built into this music have been scientifically proven to alter one's state of mind for better well being. Music for Relaxing is becoming very popular and we are proud to be a part of it. When listening to Relaxation Music it’s good to take a few deep breaths and connect with your body. Listen to the relaxing sounds, ideally with speakers either side of you or with headphones to get all the benefits to become fully relaxed. #RelaxingMusic #MusicToRelax #RelaxMusic BiNaural Beats - Healing4Happiness produces BiNaural Beats by themselves and in combination with other audio. All our BiNaural Beats are created to the highest standard using the code for best practice which combines the research of the last 30 years into what you can now hear on our channel. Every BiNaural Beat, be it for study, sleep, meditation or pain has been created using a researched and scientifically backed frequency. All BiNaural Beats are created using the Oster Curve to establish the most effective carrier frequency. This ensures the success of the BiNaural Beat. To learn how BiNaural Beats work check out this article: ift.tt/20vTAWO #BiNauralBeats Instrumental Music - You will find our Instrumental music to be of the highest quality on YouTube. We have a source of Classical Instrumental Music that is above all else. We also create our own ambient instrumental music for our listening pleasure. You will find that all music called “instrumental” has a very broad meaning. Of course you would expect it to mean that it's a song which features only the music from a song without any singing or synth sounds. And this is true all music that features an instrument is instrumental music, including classical, guitar, orchestral, flute and many more. #InstrumentalMusic Piano Music - Piano Music is one of our specialties here at Healing4Happiness. We have classical Piano Music from composers such as Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn and many others. All our classical piano music is of high quality and has Alpha Waves. We also produce Instrumental Piano Music which is often more relaxing, soft and calming than Classical Piano. #PianoMusic #ClassicalPiano #InstrumentalPiano
youtu.be/9dUJapF5Stw Be relaxed with this meditation music . This meditation music is great for concentration, focus, memory retention, over all this music will help with your learning capabilities. This meditation music can also be listen to as a relax healing music, yoga music. This music can also be use as a background music on your spa as an ultimate relaxation experience for you and your clients. Meditation - Used for meditation, this music can allow you to find deep stillness inside of yourself. Meditation music can also be used to find higher states of mind, states where thought comes easily. This is very useful for problem solving, invention or for artists to get into a creative state. Meditation music ranges in pace, quality and composition, so find something that fits with what you are trying to achieve. We have lots of meditation music and music for relaxation on our channel to help you along your day. We at Healing4Happiness love music for meditation that soothes the soul and helps one feel stress free all day long. #MeditationMusic #MusicforMeditation Healing - Healing music is a wonderful tool for healing emotional trauma. Many of our tracks will help you search deep inside yourself, relax and make peace with those emotions that need some attention and healing music. Music alone can be the catalyst for healing, bringing one into the feeling or emotion that needs a little love and attention to be resolved. This healing music is perfect to listen to while doing yoga exercises, reiki or any other healing practice. Being in a relaxed, calm state will allow you to restore your natural vitality, our healing music will do just that. #HealingMusic Relaxation - With soothing tones and gentle melodies, our relaxing music is the perfect tool for Stress relief, anxiety, meditation, zen. Don't wait until you need a medical help (or self medicated) to feel relaxed, listen to our amazing music today and every time you feel the need. BiNaural Beats built into this music have been scientifically proven to alter one's state of mind for better well being. Music for Relaxing is becoming very popular and we are a proud part of it. When listening to Relaxation Music it’s good to take a few deep breaths and connect with your body. Listen to the relaxing sounds, ideally with speakers either side of you or with headphones to get all the benefits to become fully relaxed. Healing4Happines has relaxing music, relaxation music, soothing music, relax music, calm music for stress relief, meditation, relaxation, yoga, massage. #RelaxingMusic #Relax BiNaural Beats - Healing4Happiness produces BiNaural Beats by themselves and in combination with other audio. All our BiNaural Beats are created to the highest standard using the code for best practice which combines the research of the last 30 years into what you can now hear on our channel. Our BiNaural Beats for study, sleep, meditation or relaxation has been created using a researched and scientifically backed frequency. All BiNaural Beats are created using the Oster Curve to establish the most effective carrier frequency. This ensures the success of the BiNaural Beats. If you have yet to discove the amazing power of BiNaural Beats, jump on our channel and check out our study music with binaural best, sleep music with binaural beats, relaxing music with binaural beats and meditations including binaural beats. To learn how BiNaural Beats work check out this article: ift.tt/20vTAWO #BiNauralBeats Thanks for supporting our channel! We love creating music to help people in their lives, in stressful situations, in need of rest or focus and concentration. Thanks for watching our videos, you can also follow us on other social media sites below. Join Us On Facebook: ift.tt/2a3mWaE Join Us On Twitter: twitter.com/bmusicssr Join Us On Facebook: ift.tt/2auZdVR Join Us On Tumblr: ift.tt/2aVZv4S For more information about where to purchase or listen to our music such as Spotify, Google Play, Amazon etc. checkout the “About” section of our YouTube channel.
youtu.be/1dnWev0CvX4 Healing4Hapiness specialized in study music with BiNaural Beats. Our music is great for studying, reading, writing, focus, final exam, concentration, creativity and many more. Listen to this study music and activate your super learning skill. The mystical and the calming sound of this study music will help you concentrate, have a better memory and help you will learn faster. With binaural beats embedded in this music will help you absorb the information faster by enhancing your learning skills. Enjoy your studying and ace that exam. Good Luck! Study Music - Study music will calm a busy mind which allows focus, concentration on the task at hand. This means you can study without difficulty or distraction, enjoy your study time and pass exams easily with top grades. We include BiNaural Beats in study music which gives massive added bonus when compared with other music. Memory retention and other cognitive abilities including focus, concentration, attention span, test results, academic life etc are greatly enhanced. Study Music from Healing4Happiness has proven results with millions of people. Our Alpha BiNaural Beat (embedded in all study music) increased grades by 72.3% in 2015. When it comes to final exam time, make sure you are listening to our music and you will get the best grades ever! Study Music for Final Exam Study Time. #StudyMusic #MusicForStudying BiNaural Beats - Healing4Happiness produces BiNaural Beats by themselves and in combination with other audio. All our BiNaural Beats are created to the highest standard using the code for best practice which combines the research of the last 30 years into what you can now hear on our channel. Our BiNaural Beats for study, sleep, meditation or relaxation has been created using a researched and scientifically backed frequency. All BiNaural Beats are created using the Oster Curve to establish the most effective carrier frequency. This ensures the success of the BiNaural Beats. If you have yet to discove the amazing power of BiNaural Beats, jump on our channel and check out our study music with binaural best, sleep music with binaural beats, relaxing music with binaural beats and meditations including binaural beats. To learn how BiNaural Beats work check out this article: ift.tt/20vTAWO #BiNauralBeats Super Learning - Super Learning was first discovered or coined by Dr. Georgi Lozanov in the 1960 in his laboratory in Bulgaria. Since then it has taken a very slow emergence into the rest of the world, with his government trying to remove him. The success of his super learning methods are astounding. He was able to increase the memory and cognitive abilities in some cases by up to thirty times using Alpha Waves to naturally induce an Alpha Brain State. Now that's a whole lot more memory and thirty times faster learning! Most of his studies were done with foreign language learning. This involves many parts of the brain including memory, concentration, focus and reasoning or logical thinking. With our own test using our specially engineered Alpha BiNaural Beat, we have found that 83% people get 2x - 5x improved focus, memory, concentration and overall super learning. Another 9% have results between 15x and 30x super learning abilities. We were not able to determine those who fell between the 6 - 14 times and the other 8% were not affected by the BiNaural Beats. Check out the research here: ift.tt/1sO41us #SuperMemory #SuperLearning Thanks for supporting our channel! We love creating music to help people in their lives, in stressful situations, in need of rest or focus and concentration. Thanks for watching our videos, you can also follow us on other social media site below. Join Us On Facebook: ift.tt/2a2y0VN Join Us On Twitter: twitter.com/heal4happiness/ Join Us On Google+: ift.tt/2a4mgFg Our Site: ift.tt/2aeW4rS Purchase from iTunes: ift.tt/2a3nsW9 For more information about where to purchase or listen to our music such as Spotify, Google Play, Amazon etc. checkout the “About” section of our YouTube channel. Artist or Producer Submit Music: ift.tt/2a4lN68 If you are an artist or producer and would like to grow your fan base, get more album download, have your music published on iTunes, setup a global name for yourself. Contact Healing4Happiness Music. info@healing4happiness.com Garden Music Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ift.tt/oKTIFM
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youtu.be/rNylzcUtiLE Study and get inspired with this 8 hours study music, a well arranged piano music that gives a light feeling, motivation, relaxation feeling while you study for your final exam. This music was embedded with BiNaural Beats that is good for focus, concentration, memory, study time, work, reading. Music for Work - Listening to a work music will boost your concentration and will deliver greater result in your performance. It has a great benefit to you because our work music is embedded with binaural beats that helps us focus on your work at hand. #musicforwork #workmusic Study Music Study music can help to calm a busy mind which allows for focus on the task at hand. This means you can study without difficulty or distraction. We also include BiNaural Beats in our tracks which gives a huge added bonus to how effective it will be. You memory retention and other cognitive abilities including focus, concentration, attention span etc will be greatly enhanced. Our Alpha BiNaural Beat has been proven to give average higher grades. This is why it will be so helpful when it comes to final exam time! Study Music for Final Exam Study Time. #StudyMusic #MusicForStudying Final Exams - Final Exam study time is a very stressful time of year and time in your life, that's why listening to our amazing study music is perfect. Our Study music for final exam study time is designed to assist you in learning all the information you need to, in the most effective way possible. Through Alpha Waves embedded in our music your brain's rhythm will naturally be adjusted to the perfect frequency, the alpha state. With your brain in an Alpha Wave state, information is absorbed more effectively, memory retention is increased greatly and stress levels are lowered or gone entirely. #FinalExams #FinalExamStudyTime Relaxation - With soothing tones and gentle melodies, our relaxing music is the perfect tool to wash away a stressful day. Don't wait until you need a medical (or self medicated) fix to release your anxiety, fear, worry or stress. BiNaural Beats built into this music have been scientifically proven to alter one's state of mind for better well being. Music for Relaxing is becoming very popular and we are proud to be a part of it. When listening to Relaxation Music it’s good to take a few deep breaths and connect with your body. Listen to the relaxing sounds, ideally with speakers either side of you or with headphones to get all the benefits to become fully relaxed. #RelaxingMusic #MusicToRelax #RelaxMusic BiNaural Beats - Healing4Happiness produces BiNaural Beats by themselves and in combination with other audio. All our BiNaural Beats are created to the highest standard using the code for best practice which combines the research of the last 30 years into what you can now hear on our channel. Every BiNaural Beat, be it for study, sleep, meditation or pain has been created using a researched and scientifically backed frequency. All BiNaural Beats are created using the Oster Curve to establish the most effective carrier frequency. This ensures the success of the BiNaural Beat. To learn how BiNaural Beats work check out this article: ift.tt/20vTAWO #BiNauralBeats Classical music piece performed by Belcea Quartet Licensed by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Music license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Website ift.tt/PKBnpk
youtu.be/7CzGZ5r_NzM This jazz study music is a relaxing, instrumental music. The music was arranged in the most tasteful manner. This study music is embedded with BiNaural Beats that is great for concentration, focus, memory, learning, studying, reading, relaxing, creativity. Try it for yourself and let me know in the comments below if it worked for you. Please Like, Share, and Subscribe. Thank You. Download the original track here, plus more of Dani's piano music: ift.tt/29gYtQ7... Artist Bio: I am Dani from Regensburg, Germany. I惴 26 years old and I惴 studying philosophy but I惴 first and foremost a musician. I play the piano since I惴 a little child and six years ago, as our band was dissolved, I started to write own pieces on the piano. I am very happy to have found my vocation as a solo piano player because I just love this instrument! I always loved the power of music and how it can bring people joy - or ease their pain - just by listening to it. That愀 magic for me; magic that can愒 be expressed with words. :) Follow Dani: ift.tt/29qMZxm www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWm... Study Music Study music can help to calm a busy mind which allows for focus on the task at hand. This means you can study without difficulty or distraction. We also include BiNaural Beats in our tracks which gives a huge added bonus to how effective it will be. You memory retention and other cognitive abilities including focus, concentration, attention span etc will be greatly enhanced. Our Alpha BiNaural Beat has been proven to give average higher grades. This is why it will be so helpful when it comes to final exam time! Relaxation With soothing tones and gentle melodies, our music can be the perfect tool to wash away a stressful day. Don't wait until you need a medical (or self medicated) fix to release your anxiety, fear, worry or stress. Frequencies built into this music have been scientifically proven to alter one's state of mind for better well being. BiNaural Beats Healing4Happiness produces BiNaural Beats by themselves and in combination with other audio. All our BiNaural Beats are created to the highest standard using our code for best practice which combines the research of the last 30 years into what you can now hear on our channel. Instrumental Music You will find our Instrumental music to be of the highest quality on YouTube. We have a source of Classical Instrumental Music that is above all else. We also create our own ambient instrumental music for our listening pleasure. You will find that all music called “instrumental” has a very broad meaning. Of course you would expect it to mean that it's a song which features only the music from a song without any singing or synth sounds. And this is true all music that features an instrument is instrumental music, including classical, guitar, orchestral, flute and many more. #InstrumentalMusic Study Music Study music can help to calm a busy mind which allows for focus on the task at hand. This means you can study without difficulty or distraction. We also include BiNaural Beats in our tracks which gives a huge added bonus to how effective it will be. You memory retention and other cognitive abilities including focus, concentration, attention span etc will be greatly enhanced. Our Alpha BiNaural Beat has been proven to give average higher grades. This is why it will be so helpful when it comes to final exam time! Study Music for Final Exam Study Time. #StudyMusic #MusicForStudying
youtu.be/HiPFhR12V4o Make studying fun and relaxing by listening to this wonderful, well arrange guitar music. This music will help inspire you to study better and relax at the same time. This music will also help to improve your concentration and focus. This music is also great for the memory and creativity. Overall this music will help enhance your learning abilities. Study Music - Study music will calm a busy mind which allows focus, concentration on the task at hand. This means you can study without difficulty or distraction, enjoy your study time and pass exams easily with top grades. We include BiNaural Beats in study music which gives massive added bonus when compared to other music. Memory retention and other cognitive abilities including focus, concentration, attention span, test results, academic life etc are greatly enhanced. Study Music from Beautiful Music has proven results with millions of people. Our Alpha BiNaural Beat (embedded in all study music) increased grades by 72.3% in 2015. When it comes to final exam time, make sure you are listening to our music and you will get the best grades ever! Study Music for Final Exam Study Time. #StudyMusic #MusicForStudying BiNaural Beats - Beautiful Music produces BiNaural Beats by themselves and in combination with other audio. All our BiNaural Beats are created to the highest standard using the code for best practice which combines the research of the last 30 years into what you can now hear on our channel. Our BiNaural Beats for study, sleep, meditation or relaxation has been created using a researched and scientifically backed frequency. All BiNaural Beats are created using the Oster Curve to establish the most effective carrier frequency. This ensures the success of the BiNaural Beats. If you have yet to discover the amazing power of BiNaural Beats, jump on our channel and check out our study music with binaural best, sleep music with binaural beats, relaxing music with binaural beats and meditations including binaural beats. To learn how BiNaural Beats work check out this article: www.Beautiful ift.tt/2bAPIWj #BiNauralBeats Relaxing Music - All the relaxing music at Beautiful Music has soothing tones and calm melodies, it's the perfect tool to wash away a stressful day, experiencing total stress relief. Relaxing Music including sleep music, relaxation music, relax music, zen music, yoga music, meditation music are perfect for soothing, calm, stress relief, relaxation, peace & tranquility. Relaxing music is like healing music with peaceful sounds, nature sounds, birds, rain, water, ocean or waves. Sit back and listen to Relaxing Music for stress relief, anxiety, healing, and yoga. Subscribe for more Relaxing Music #RealxingMusic #StressRelief Concentration music Concentration music lets you concentrate on the task that you are currently doing. One of the jobs of concentration music is to block away any distraction while you are studying or while you’re working. Concentration music will let you focus on your work and let you think better and learn better. Concentration music also helps with your memory, listening to concentration music will boost your memory retention and let you remember the information better. Concentration music also allows you to concentrate without you even noticing that you’re subconsciously meditating. Concentration music is great to listen to while studying or working. Concentration music including Concentration music for study, Concentration music for better focus, Concentration music for memory retention, Concentration music for study time, Concentration music for better grades Thanks for supporting our channel! We love creating music to help people in their lives, in stressful situations, in need of rest or focus and concentration. Thanks for watching our videos, you can also follow us on other social media sites below. Join Us On Facebook: ift.tt/2a3mWaE Join Us On Twitter: twitter.com/bmusicssr Join Us On Facebook: ift.tt/2auZdVR Join Us On Tumblr: ift.tt/2aVZv4S For more information about where to purchase or listen to our music such as Spotify, Google Play, Amazon etc. check out the “About” section of our YouTube channel. Music By: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCS0H7Wn_ZU "Forgotten Season(??? ??)Classical Guitar - Played,Arr. NOH DONGHWAN" by DONG HWAN Noh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY)). Some changes were made. ift.tt/1ksQ9ed
Digital Drugs or Binaural beats or Binaural Tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
An appropriate subject for the Tascam DR-07MKII. Truth be told, I'm using external binaural mics and a 9V "battery box" power supply, but the unit looks cool enough by itself with built-in cardioid mics.
For examples of recordings:
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Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl.
Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except Antarctica and some remote islands.
Owls are divided into two families: the Strigidae family of true (or typical) owls; and the Tytonidae family of barn-owls.
ANATOMY
Owls possess large, forward-facing eyes and ear-holes, a hawk-like beak, a flat face, and usually a conspicuous circle of feathers, a facial disc, around each eye. The feathers making up this disc can be adjusted to sharply focus sounds from varying distances onto the owls' asymmetrically placed ear cavities. Most birds of prey have eyes on the sides of their heads, but the stereoscopic nature of the owl's forward-facing eyes permits the greater sense of depth perception necessary for low-light hunting. Although owls have binocular vision, their large eyes are fixed in their sockets - as are those of most other birds - so they must turn their entire heads to change views. As owls are farsighted, they are unable to clearly see anything within a few centimeters of their eyes. Caught prey can be felt by owls with the use of filoplumes - hairlike feathers on the beak and feet that act as "feelers". Their far vision, particularly in low light, is exceptionally good.
Owls can rotate their heads and necks as much as 270°. Owls have 14 neck vertebrae compared to seven in humans, which makes their necks more flexible. They also have adaptations to their circulatory systems, permitting rotation without cutting off blood to the brain: the foramina in their vertebrae through which the vertebral arteries pass are about 10 times the diameter of the artery, instead of about the same size as the artery as in humans; the vertebral arteries enter the cervical vertebrae higher than in other birds, giving the vessels some slack, and the carotid arteries unite in a very large anastomosis or junction, the largest of any bird's, preventing blood supply from being cut off while they rotate their necks. Other anastomoses between the carotid and vertebral arteries support this effect.
The smallest owl—weighing as little as 31 g and measuring some 13.5 cm - is the elf owl (Micrathene whitneyi). Around the same diminutive length, although slightly heavier, are the lesser known long-whiskered owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi) and Tamaulipas pygmy owl (Glaucidium sanchezi). The largest owl by length is the great grey owl (Strix nebulosa), which measures about 70 cm on average and can attain a length of 84 cm). However, the heaviest (and largest winged) owls are two similarly sized eagle owls; the Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) and Blakiston's fish owl (B. blakistoni). These two species, which are on average about 2.53 cm shorter in length than the great grey, can both attain a wingspan of 2 m and a weight of 4.5 kg in the largest females.
Different species of owls produce different sounds; this distribution of calls aids owls in finding mates or announcing their presence to potential competitors, and also aids ornithologists and birders in locating these birds and distinguishing species. As noted above, their facial discs help owls to funnel the sound of prey to their ears. In many species, these discs are placed asymmetrically, for better directional location.
Owl plumage is generally cryptic, although several species have facial and head markings, including face masks, ear tufts, and brightly coloured irises. These markings are generally more common in species inhabiting open habitats, and are thought to be used in signaling with other owls in low-light conditions.
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM
Sexual dimorphism is a physical difference between males and females of a species. Reverse sexual dimorphism, when females are larger than males, has been observed across multiple owl species. The degree of size dimorphism varies across multiple populations and species, and is measured through various traits, such as wing span and body mass. Overall, female owls tend to be slightly larger than males. The exact explanation for this development in owls is unknown. However, several theories explain the development of sexual dimorphism in owls.
One theory suggests that selection has led males to be smaller because it allows them to be efficient foragers. The ability to obtain more food is advantageous during breeding season. In some species, female owls stay at their nest with their eggs while it is the responsibility of the male to bring back food to the nest. However, if food is scarce, the male first feeds himself before feeding the female. Small birds, which are agile, are an important source of food for owls. Male burrowing owls have been observed to have longer wing chords than females, despite being smaller than females. Furthermore, owls have been observed to be roughly the same size as their prey. This has also been observed in other predatory birds, which suggests that owls with smaller bodies and long wing chords have been selected for because of the increased agility and speed that allows them to catch their prey.
Another popular theory suggests that females have not been selected to be smaller like male owls because of their sexual roles. In many species, female owls may not leave the nest. Therefore, females may have a larger mass to allow them to go for a longer period of time without starving. For example, one hypothesized sexual role is that larger females are more capable of dismembering prey and feeding it to their young, hence female owls are larger than their male counterparts.
A different theory suggests that the size difference between male and females is due to sexual selection: since large females can choose their mate and may violently reject a male's sexual advances, smaller male owls that have the ability to escape unreceptive females are more likely to have been selected.
ADAPTATIONS AND HUNTING
All owls are carnivorous birds of prey and live mainly on a diet of insects and small rodents such as mice, rats, and hares. Some owls are also specifically adapted to hunt fish. They are very adept in hunting in their respective environments. Since owls can be found in nearly all parts of the world and across a multitude of ecosystems, their hunting skills and characteristics vary slightly from species to species, though most characteristics are shared among all species.
FLIGHT AND FEATHERS
Most owls share an innate ability to fly almost silently and also more slowly in comparison to other birds of prey. Most owls live a mainly nocturnal lifestyle and being able to fly without making any noise gives them a strong advantage over their prey that are listening for the slightest sound in the night. A silent, slow flight is not as necessary for diurnal and crepuscular owls given that prey can usually see an owl approaching. While the morphological and biological mechanisms of this silent flight are more or less unknown, the structure of the feather has been heavily studied and accredited to a large portion of why they have this ability. Owls’ feathers are generally larger than the average birds’ feathers, have fewer radiates, longer pennulum, and achieve smooth edges with different rachis structures. Serrated edges along the owl’s remiges bring the flapping of the wing down to a nearly silent mechanism. The serrations are more likely reducing aerodynamic disturbances, rather than simply reducing noise. The surface of the flight feathers is covered with a velvety structure that absorbs the sound of the wing moving. These unique structures reduce noise frequencies above 2 kHz, making the sound level emitted drop below the typical hearing spectrum of the owl’s usual prey and also within the owl’s own best hearing range. This optimizes the owl’s ability to silently fly to capture prey without the prey hearing the owl first as it flies in. It also allows the owl to monitor the sound output from its flight pattern.
The feather adaption that allows silent flight means that barn owl feathers are not waterproof. To retain the softness and silent flight, the barn owl cannot use the preen oil or powder dust that other species use for waterproofing. In wet weather, they cannot hunt and this may be disastrous during the breeding season. Barn owls are frequently found drowned in cattle drinking troughs, since they land to drink and bathe, but are unable to climb out. Owls can struggle to keep warm, because of their lack of waterproofing, so large numbers of downy feathers help them to retain body heat.
VISION
Eyesight is a particular characteristic of the owl that aids in nocturnal prey capture. Owls are part of a small group of birds that live nocturnally, but do not use echolocation to guide them in flight in low-light situations. Owls are known for their disproportionally large eyes in comparison to their skulls. An apparent consequence of the evolution of an absolutely large eye in a relatively small skull is that the eye of the owl has become tubular in shape. This shape is found in other so-called nocturnal eyes, such as the eyes of strepsirrhine primates and bathypelagic fishes. Since the eyes are fixed into these sclerotic tubes, they are unable to move the eyes in any direction. Instead of moving their eyes, owls swivel their heads to view their surroundings. Owls' heads are capable of swiveling through an angle of roughly 270°, easily enabling them to see behind them without relocating the torso. This ability keeps bodily movement at a minimum, thus reduces the amount of sound the owl makes as it waits for its prey. Owls are regarded as having the most frontally placed eyes among all avian groups, which gives them some of the largest binocular fields of vision. However, owls are farsighted and cannot focus on objects within a few centimeters of their eyes. While owls are commonly believed to have great nocturnal vision due to their large (thus very light-gathering) eyes and pupils and/or extremely sensitive rod receptors, the true cause for their ability to see in the night is due to neural mechanisms which mediate the extraction of spatial information gathered from the retinal image throughout the nocturnal luminance range. These mechanisms are only able to function due to the large-sized retinal image. Thus, the primary nocturnal function in the vision of the owl is due to its large posterior nodal distance; retinal image brightness is only maximized to the owl within secondary neural functions. These attributes of the owl cause its nocturnal eyesight to be far superior to that of its average prey.
HEARING
Owls exhibit specialized hearing functions and ear shapes that also aid in hunting. They are noted for asymmetrical ear placements on the skull in some genera. Owls can have either internal or external ears, both of which are asymmetrical. Asymmetry has not been reported to extend to the middle or internal ear of the owl. Asymmetrical ear placement on the skull allows the owl to pinpoint the location of its prey. This is especially true for strictly nocturnal species such as the barn owls Tyto or Tengmalm's owl. With ears set at different places on its skull, an owl is able to determine the direction from which the sound is coming by the minute difference in time that it takes for the sound waves to penetrate the left and right ears.[citation needed] The owl turns its head until the sound reaches both ears at the same time, at which point it is directly facing the source of the sound. This time difference between ears is a matter of about 0.00003 seconds, or 30 millionths of a second. Behind the ear openings are modified, dense feathers, densely packed to form a facial ruff, which creates an anterior-facing, concave wall that cups the sound into the ear structure. This facial ruff is poorly defined in some species, and prominent, nearly encircling the face, in other species. The facial disk also acts to direct sound into the ears, and a downward-facing, sharply triangular beak minimizes sound reflection away from the face. The shape of the facial disk is adjustable at will to focus sounds more effectively.
The prominences above a great horned owl's head are commonly mistaken as its ears. This is not the case; they are merely feather tufts. The ears are on the sides of the head in the usual location (in two different locations as described above).
TALONS
While the auditory and visual capabilities of the owl allow it to locate and pursue its prey, the talons and beak of the owl do the final work. The owl kills its prey using these talons to crush the skull and knead the body. The crushing power of an owl’s talons varies according to prey size and type, and by the size of the owl. The burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), a small, partly insectivorous owl, has a release force of only 5 N. The larger barn owl (Tyto alba) needs a force of 30 N to release its prey, and one of the largest owls, the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) needs a force over 130 N to release prey in its talons. An owl’s talons, like those of most birds of prey, can seem massive in comparison to the body size outside of flight. The masked owl has some of the proportionally longest talons of any bird of prey; they appear enormous in comparison to the body when fully extended to grasp prey. An owl’s claws are sharp and curved. The family Tytonidae has inner and central toes of about equal length, while the family Strigidae has an inner toe that is distinctly shorter than the central one. These different morphologies allow efficiency in capturing prey specific to the different environments they inhabit.
BEAK
The beak of the owl is short, curved, and downward-facing, and typically hooked at the tip for gripping and tearing its prey. Once prey is captured, the scissor motion of the top and lower bill is used to tear the tissue and kill. The sharp lower edge of the upper bill works in coordination with the sharp upper edge of the lower bill to deliver this motion. The downward-facing beak allows the owl’s field of vision to be clear, as well as directing sound into the ears without deflecting sound waves away from the face.
CAMOUFLAGE
The coloration of the owl’s plumage plays a key role in its ability to sit still and blend into the environment, making it nearly invisible to prey. Owls tend to mimic the colorations and sometimes even the texture patterns of their surroundings, the common barn owl being an exception. Nyctea scandiaca, or the snowy owl, appears nearly bleach-white in color with a few flecks of black, mimicking their snowy surroundings perfectly. Likewise, the mottled wood-owl (Strix ocellata) displays shades of brown, tan, and black, making the owl nearly invisible in the surrounding trees, especially from behind. Usually, the only tell-tale sign of a perched owl is its vocalizations or its vividly colored eyes.
BEHAVIOR
The serrations on the leading edge of an owl's flight feathers reduce noise
Most owls are nocturnal, actively hunting their prey in darkness. Several types of owls, however, are crepuscular - active during the twilight hours of dawn and dusk; one example is the pygmy owl (Glaucidium). A few owls are active during the day, also; examples are the burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) and the short-eared owl (Asio flammeus).
Much of the owls' hunting strategy depends on stealth and surprise. Owls have at least two adaptations that aid them in achieving stealth. First, the dull coloration of their feathers can render them almost invisible under certain conditions. Secondly, serrated edges on the leading edge of owls' remiges muffle an owl's wing beats, allowing an owl's flight to be practically silent. Some fish-eating owls, for which silence has no evolutionary advantage, lack this adaptation.
An owl's sharp beak and powerful talons allow it to kill its prey before swallowing it whole (if it is not too big). Scientists studying the diets of owls are helped by their habit of regurgitating the indigestible parts of their prey (such as bones, scales, and fur) in the form of pellets. These "owl pellets" are plentiful and easy to interpret, and are often sold by companies to schools for dissection by students as a lesson in biology and ecology.
BREEDING AND REPRODUCTION
Owl eggs typically have a white colour and an almost spherical shape, and range in number from a few to a dozen, depending on species and the particular season; for most, three or four is the more common number. In at least one species, female owls do not mate with the same male for a lifetime. Female burrowing owls commonly travel and find other mates, while the male stays in his territory and mates with other females.
EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS
The systematic placement of owls is disputed. For example, the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy finds that, based on DNA-DNA hybridization, owls are more closely related to the nightjars and their allies (Caprimulgiformes) than to the diurnal predators in the order Falconiformes; consequently, the Caprimulgiformes are placed in the Strigiformes, and the owls in general become a family, the Strigidae. A recent study indicates that the drastic rearrangement of the genome of the accipitrids may have obscured any close relationship of theirs with groups such as the owls. In any case, the relationships of the Caprimulgiformes, the owls, the falcons, and the accipitrid raptors are not resolved to satisfaction; currently, a trend to consider each group (with the possible exception of the accipitrids) as a distinct order is increasing.
Some 220 to 225 extant species of owls are known, subdivided into two families: typical owls (Strigidae) and barn-owls (Tytonidae). Some entirely extinct families have also been erected based on fossil remains; these differ much from modern owls in being less specialized or specialized in a very different way (such as the terrestrial Sophiornithidae). The Paleocene genera Berruornis and Ogygoptynx show that owls were already present as a distinct lineage some 60–57 million years ago (Mya), hence, possibly also some 5 million years earlier, at the extinction of the nonavian dinosaurs. This makes them one of the oldest known groups of non-Galloanserae landbirds. The supposed "Cretaceous owls" Bradycneme and Heptasteornis are apparently nonavialan maniraptors.
During the Paleogene, the Strigiformes radiated into ecological niches now mostly filled by other groups of birds.[clarification needed] The owls as known today, though, evolved their characteristic morphology and adaptations during that time, too. By the early Neogene, the other lineages had been displaced by other bird orders, leaving only barn-owls and typical owls. The latter at that time were usually a fairly generic type of (probably earless) owls similar to today's North American spotted owl or the European tawny owl; the diversity in size and ecology found in typical owls today developed only subsequently.
Around the Paleogene-Neogene boundary (some 25 Mya), barn-owls were the dominant group of owls in southern Europe and adjacent Asia at least; the distribution of fossil and present-day owl lineages indicates that their decline is contemporary with the evolution of the different major lineages of typical owls, which for the most part seems to have taken place in Eurasia. In the Americas, rather an expansion of immigrant lineages of ancestral typical owls occurred.
The supposed fossil herons "Ardea" perplexa (Middle Miocene of Sansan, France) and "Ardea" lignitum (Late Pliocene of Germany) were more probably owls; the latter was apparently close to the modern genus Bubo. Judging from this, the Late Miocene remains from France described as "Ardea" aureliensis should also be restudied. The Messelasturidae, some of which were initially believed to be basal Strigiformes, are now generally accepted to be diurnal birds of prey showing some convergent evolution towards owls. The taxa often united under Strigogyps were formerly placed in part with the owls, specifically the Sophiornithidae; they appear to be Ameghinornithidae instead.
SYMBOLISM AND MYTHOLOGY
AFRICAN CULTURES
Among the Kikuyu of Kenya, it was believed that owls were harbingers of death. If one saw an owl or heard its hoot, someone was going to die. In general, owls are viewed as harbingers of bad luck, ill health, or death. The belief is widespread even today.
ANCIENT EUROPEAN AND MODERN WESTERN CULTURE
The modern West generally associates owls with wisdom. This link goes back at least as far as Ancient Greece, where Athens, noted for art and scholarship, and Athena, Athens' patron goddess and the goddess of wisdom, had the owl as a symbol.[34] Marija Gimbutas traces veneration of the owl as a goddess, among other birds, to the culture of Old Europe, long pre-dating Indo-European cultures.
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer in his Folk-lore of Shakespeare says that "from the earliest period it has been considered a bird of ill-omen," and Pliny tells us how, on one occasion, even Rome itself underwent a lustration, because one of them strayed into the Capitol. He represents it also as a funereal bird, a monster of the night, the very abomination of human kind. Virgil describes its death-howl from the top of the temple by night, a circumstance introduced as a precursor of Dido's death. Ovid, too, constantly speaks of this bird's presence as an evil omen; and indeed the same notions respecting it may be found among the writings of most of the ancient poets." A list of "omens drear" in John Keats' Hyperion includes the "gloom-bird's hated screech." Pliny the Elder reports that owl's eggs were commonly used as a hangover cure.
HINDUISM
In Hinduism, an owl is the vahana, mount, of the Goddess Lakshmi.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES
People often allude to the reputation of owls as bearers of supernatural danger when they tell misbehaving children, "the owls will get you", and in most Native American folklore, owls are a symbol of death. For example:
According to Apache and Seminole tribes, hearing owls hooting is considered the subject of numerous "bogeyman" stories told to warn children to remain indoors at night or not cry too much, otherwise the owl may carry them away. In some tribal legends, owls are associated with spirits of the dead, and the bony circles around an owl's eyes are said to comprise the fingernails of apparitional humans. Sometimes owls are said to carry messages from beyond the grave or deliver supernatural warnings to people who have broken tribal taboos.
The Aztecs and Maya, along with other natives of Mesoamerica, considered the owl a symbol of death and destruction. In fact, the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, was often depicted with owls. There is an old saying in Mexico that is still in use: Cuando el tecolote canta, el indio muere ("When the owl cries/sings, the Indian dies"). The Popol Vuh, a Mayan religious text, describes owls as messengers of Xibalba (the Mayan "Place of Fright").
The belief that owls are messengers and harbingers of the dark powers is also found among the Hočągara (Winnebago) of Wisconsin.[46] When in earlier days the Hočągara committed the sin of killing enemies while they were within the sanctuary of the chief's lodge, an owl appeared and spoke to them in the voice of a human, saying, "From now on the Hočągara will have no luck." This marked the beginning of the decline of their tribe. An owl appeared to Glory of the Morning, the only female chief of the Hočąk nation, and uttered her name. Soon afterwards she died.
According to the culture of the Hopi, a Uto-Aztec tribe, taboos surround owls, which are associated with sorcery and other evils.
Ojibwe tribes, as well as their Aboriginal Canadian counterparts, used an owl as a symbol for both evil and death. In addition, they used owls as a symbol of very high status of spiritual leaders of their spirituality.
Pawnee tribes viewed owls as the symbol of protection from any danger within their realms.
Pueblo people associated owls with Skeleton Man, the god of death and spirit of fertility.
Yakama tribes use an owl as a powerful totem. Such taboos or totems often guide where and how forests and natural resources are useful with management, even to this day and even with the proliferation of "scientific" forestry on reservations.
Use as rodent control
A purpose-built owl-house or owlery at a farm near Morton on the Hill, England (2006)
Encouraging natural predators to control rodent population is a natural form of pest control, along with excluding food sources for rodents. Placing a nest box for owls on a property can help control rodent populations (one family of hungry barn owls can consume more than 3,000 rodents in a nesting season) while maintaining the naturally balanced food chain
ATTACKS ON HUMANS
Although humans and owls frequently live together in harmony, there have been incidents when owls have attacked humans. In January 2013, a man from Inverness, Scotland suffered heavy bleeding and went into shock after being attacked by an owl, which was likely a 50-cm tall eagle owl.[52] The photographer Eric Hosking lost his left eye after attempting to photograph a tawny owl, which inspired the title of his 1970 autobiography, An Eye for a Bird.
CONSERVATION ISSUES
All owls are listed in Appendix II of the international CITES treaty (the Convention on Illegal Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Although owls have long been hunted, a 2008 news story from Malaysia indicates that the magnitude of owl poaching may be on the rise. In November 2008, TRAFFIC reported the seizure of 900 plucked and "oven-ready" owls in Peninsular Malaysia. Said Chris Shepherd, Senior Programme Officer for TRAFFIC's Southeast Asia office, "This is the first time we know of where 'ready-prepared' owls have been seized in Malaysia, and it may mark the start of a new trend in wild meat from the region. We will be monitoring developments closely." TRAFFIC commended the Department of Wildlife and National Parks in Malaysia for the raid that exposed the huge haul of owls. Included in the seizure were dead and plucked barn owls, spotted wood owls, crested serpent eagles, barred eagles, and brown wood owls, as well as 7,000 live lizards.
WIKIPEDIA
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl.
Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except Antarctica and some remote islands.
Owls are divided into two families: the Strigidae family of true (or typical) owls; and the Tytonidae family of barn-owls.
ANATOMY
Owls possess large, forward-facing eyes and ear-holes, a hawk-like beak, a flat face, and usually a conspicuous circle of feathers, a facial disc, around each eye. The feathers making up this disc can be adjusted to sharply focus sounds from varying distances onto the owls' asymmetrically placed ear cavities. Most birds of prey have eyes on the sides of their heads, but the stereoscopic nature of the owl's forward-facing eyes permits the greater sense of depth perception necessary for low-light hunting. Although owls have binocular vision, their large eyes are fixed in their sockets - as are those of most other birds - so they must turn their entire heads to change views. As owls are farsighted, they are unable to clearly see anything within a few centimeters of their eyes. Caught prey can be felt by owls with the use of filoplumes - hairlike feathers on the beak and feet that act as "feelers". Their far vision, particularly in low light, is exceptionally good.
Owls can rotate their heads and necks as much as 270°. Owls have 14 neck vertebrae compared to seven in humans, which makes their necks more flexible. They also have adaptations to their circulatory systems, permitting rotation without cutting off blood to the brain: the foramina in their vertebrae through which the vertebral arteries pass are about 10 times the diameter of the artery, instead of about the same size as the artery as in humans; the vertebral arteries enter the cervical vertebrae higher than in other birds, giving the vessels some slack, and the carotid arteries unite in a very large anastomosis or junction, the largest of any bird's, preventing blood supply from being cut off while they rotate their necks. Other anastomoses between the carotid and vertebral arteries support this effect.
The smallest owl—weighing as little as 31 g and measuring some 13.5 cm - is the elf owl (Micrathene whitneyi). Around the same diminutive length, although slightly heavier, are the lesser known long-whiskered owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi) and Tamaulipas pygmy owl (Glaucidium sanchezi). The largest owl by length is the great grey owl (Strix nebulosa), which measures about 70 cm on average and can attain a length of 84 cm). However, the heaviest (and largest winged) owls are two similarly sized eagle owls; the Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) and Blakiston's fish owl (B. blakistoni). These two species, which are on average about 2.53 cm shorter in length than the great grey, can both attain a wingspan of 2 m and a weight of 4.5 kg in the largest females.
Different species of owls produce different sounds; this distribution of calls aids owls in finding mates or announcing their presence to potential competitors, and also aids ornithologists and birders in locating these birds and distinguishing species. As noted above, their facial discs help owls to funnel the sound of prey to their ears. In many species, these discs are placed asymmetrically, for better directional location.
Owl plumage is generally cryptic, although several species have facial and head markings, including face masks, ear tufts, and brightly coloured irises. These markings are generally more common in species inhabiting open habitats, and are thought to be used in signaling with other owls in low-light conditions.
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM
Sexual dimorphism is a physical difference between males and females of a species. Reverse sexual dimorphism, when females are larger than males, has been observed across multiple owl species. The degree of size dimorphism varies across multiple populations and species, and is measured through various traits, such as wing span and body mass. Overall, female owls tend to be slightly larger than males. The exact explanation for this development in owls is unknown. However, several theories explain the development of sexual dimorphism in owls.
One theory suggests that selection has led males to be smaller because it allows them to be efficient foragers. The ability to obtain more food is advantageous during breeding season. In some species, female owls stay at their nest with their eggs while it is the responsibility of the male to bring back food to the nest. However, if food is scarce, the male first feeds himself before feeding the female. Small birds, which are agile, are an important source of food for owls. Male burrowing owls have been observed to have longer wing chords than females, despite being smaller than females. Furthermore, owls have been observed to be roughly the same size as their prey. This has also been observed in other predatory birds, which suggests that owls with smaller bodies and long wing chords have been selected for because of the increased agility and speed that allows them to catch their prey.
Another popular theory suggests that females have not been selected to be smaller like male owls because of their sexual roles. In many species, female owls may not leave the nest. Therefore, females may have a larger mass to allow them to go for a longer period of time without starving. For example, one hypothesized sexual role is that larger females are more capable of dismembering prey and feeding it to their young, hence female owls are larger than their male counterparts.
A different theory suggests that the size difference between male and females is due to sexual selection: since large females can choose their mate and may violently reject a male's sexual advances, smaller male owls that have the ability to escape unreceptive females are more likely to have been selected.
ADAPTATIONS AND HUNTING
All owls are carnivorous birds of prey and live mainly on a diet of insects and small rodents such as mice, rats, and hares. Some owls are also specifically adapted to hunt fish. They are very adept in hunting in their respective environments. Since owls can be found in nearly all parts of the world and across a multitude of ecosystems, their hunting skills and characteristics vary slightly from species to species, though most characteristics are shared among all species.
FLIGHT AND FEATHERS
Most owls share an innate ability to fly almost silently and also more slowly in comparison to other birds of prey. Most owls live a mainly nocturnal lifestyle and being able to fly without making any noise gives them a strong advantage over their prey that are listening for the slightest sound in the night. A silent, slow flight is not as necessary for diurnal and crepuscular owls given that prey can usually see an owl approaching. While the morphological and biological mechanisms of this silent flight are more or less unknown, the structure of the feather has been heavily studied and accredited to a large portion of why they have this ability. Owls’ feathers are generally larger than the average birds’ feathers, have fewer radiates, longer pennulum, and achieve smooth edges with different rachis structures. Serrated edges along the owl’s remiges bring the flapping of the wing down to a nearly silent mechanism. The serrations are more likely reducing aerodynamic disturbances, rather than simply reducing noise. The surface of the flight feathers is covered with a velvety structure that absorbs the sound of the wing moving. These unique structures reduce noise frequencies above 2 kHz, making the sound level emitted drop below the typical hearing spectrum of the owl’s usual prey and also within the owl’s own best hearing range. This optimizes the owl’s ability to silently fly to capture prey without the prey hearing the owl first as it flies in. It also allows the owl to monitor the sound output from its flight pattern.
The feather adaption that allows silent flight means that barn owl feathers are not waterproof. To retain the softness and silent flight, the barn owl cannot use the preen oil or powder dust that other species use for waterproofing. In wet weather, they cannot hunt and this may be disastrous during the breeding season. Barn owls are frequently found drowned in cattle drinking troughs, since they land to drink and bathe, but are unable to climb out. Owls can struggle to keep warm, because of their lack of waterproofing, so large numbers of downy feathers help them to retain body heat.
VISION
Eyesight is a particular characteristic of the owl that aids in nocturnal prey capture. Owls are part of a small group of birds that live nocturnally, but do not use echolocation to guide them in flight in low-light situations. Owls are known for their disproportionally large eyes in comparison to their skulls. An apparent consequence of the evolution of an absolutely large eye in a relatively small skull is that the eye of the owl has become tubular in shape. This shape is found in other so-called nocturnal eyes, such as the eyes of strepsirrhine primates and bathypelagic fishes. Since the eyes are fixed into these sclerotic tubes, they are unable to move the eyes in any direction. Instead of moving their eyes, owls swivel their heads to view their surroundings. Owls' heads are capable of swiveling through an angle of roughly 270°, easily enabling them to see behind them without relocating the torso. This ability keeps bodily movement at a minimum, thus reduces the amount of sound the owl makes as it waits for its prey. Owls are regarded as having the most frontally placed eyes among all avian groups, which gives them some of the largest binocular fields of vision. However, owls are farsighted and cannot focus on objects within a few centimeters of their eyes. While owls are commonly believed to have great nocturnal vision due to their large (thus very light-gathering) eyes and pupils and/or extremely sensitive rod receptors, the true cause for their ability to see in the night is due to neural mechanisms which mediate the extraction of spatial information gathered from the retinal image throughout the nocturnal luminance range. These mechanisms are only able to function due to the large-sized retinal image. Thus, the primary nocturnal function in the vision of the owl is due to its large posterior nodal distance; retinal image brightness is only maximized to the owl within secondary neural functions. These attributes of the owl cause its nocturnal eyesight to be far superior to that of its average prey.
HEARING
Owls exhibit specialized hearing functions and ear shapes that also aid in hunting. They are noted for asymmetrical ear placements on the skull in some genera. Owls can have either internal or external ears, both of which are asymmetrical. Asymmetry has not been reported to extend to the middle or internal ear of the owl. Asymmetrical ear placement on the skull allows the owl to pinpoint the location of its prey. This is especially true for strictly nocturnal species such as the barn owls Tyto or Tengmalm's owl. With ears set at different places on its skull, an owl is able to determine the direction from which the sound is coming by the minute difference in time that it takes for the sound waves to penetrate the left and right ears.[citation needed] The owl turns its head until the sound reaches both ears at the same time, at which point it is directly facing the source of the sound. This time difference between ears is a matter of about 0.00003 seconds, or 30 millionths of a second. Behind the ear openings are modified, dense feathers, densely packed to form a facial ruff, which creates an anterior-facing, concave wall that cups the sound into the ear structure. This facial ruff is poorly defined in some species, and prominent, nearly encircling the face, in other species. The facial disk also acts to direct sound into the ears, and a downward-facing, sharply triangular beak minimizes sound reflection away from the face. The shape of the facial disk is adjustable at will to focus sounds more effectively.
The prominences above a great horned owl's head are commonly mistaken as its ears. This is not the case; they are merely feather tufts. The ears are on the sides of the head in the usual location (in two different locations as described above).
TALONS
While the auditory and visual capabilities of the owl allow it to locate and pursue its prey, the talons and beak of the owl do the final work. The owl kills its prey using these talons to crush the skull and knead the body. The crushing power of an owl’s talons varies according to prey size and type, and by the size of the owl. The burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), a small, partly insectivorous owl, has a release force of only 5 N. The larger barn owl (Tyto alba) needs a force of 30 N to release its prey, and one of the largest owls, the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) needs a force over 130 N to release prey in its talons. An owl’s talons, like those of most birds of prey, can seem massive in comparison to the body size outside of flight. The masked owl has some of the proportionally longest talons of any bird of prey; they appear enormous in comparison to the body when fully extended to grasp prey. An owl’s claws are sharp and curved. The family Tytonidae has inner and central toes of about equal length, while the family Strigidae has an inner toe that is distinctly shorter than the central one. These different morphologies allow efficiency in capturing prey specific to the different environments they inhabit.
BEAK
The beak of the owl is short, curved, and downward-facing, and typically hooked at the tip for gripping and tearing its prey. Once prey is captured, the scissor motion of the top and lower bill is used to tear the tissue and kill. The sharp lower edge of the upper bill works in coordination with the sharp upper edge of the lower bill to deliver this motion. The downward-facing beak allows the owl’s field of vision to be clear, as well as directing sound into the ears without deflecting sound waves away from the face.
CAMOUFLAGE
The coloration of the owl’s plumage plays a key role in its ability to sit still and blend into the environment, making it nearly invisible to prey. Owls tend to mimic the colorations and sometimes even the texture patterns of their surroundings, the common barn owl being an exception. Nyctea scandiaca, or the snowy owl, appears nearly bleach-white in color with a few flecks of black, mimicking their snowy surroundings perfectly. Likewise, the mottled wood-owl (Strix ocellata) displays shades of brown, tan, and black, making the owl nearly invisible in the surrounding trees, especially from behind. Usually, the only tell-tale sign of a perched owl is its vocalizations or its vividly colored eyes.
BEHAVIOR
The serrations on the leading edge of an owl's flight feathers reduce noise
Most owls are nocturnal, actively hunting their prey in darkness. Several types of owls, however, are crepuscular - active during the twilight hours of dawn and dusk; one example is the pygmy owl (Glaucidium). A few owls are active during the day, also; examples are the burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) and the short-eared owl (Asio flammeus).
Much of the owls' hunting strategy depends on stealth and surprise. Owls have at least two adaptations that aid them in achieving stealth. First, the dull coloration of their feathers can render them almost invisible under certain conditions. Secondly, serrated edges on the leading edge of owls' remiges muffle an owl's wing beats, allowing an owl's flight to be practically silent. Some fish-eating owls, for which silence has no evolutionary advantage, lack this adaptation.
An owl's sharp beak and powerful talons allow it to kill its prey before swallowing it whole (if it is not too big). Scientists studying the diets of owls are helped by their habit of regurgitating the indigestible parts of their prey (such as bones, scales, and fur) in the form of pellets. These "owl pellets" are plentiful and easy to interpret, and are often sold by companies to schools for dissection by students as a lesson in biology and ecology.
BREEDING AND REPRODUCTION
Owl eggs typically have a white colour and an almost spherical shape, and range in number from a few to a dozen, depending on species and the particular season; for most, three or four is the more common number. In at least one species, female owls do not mate with the same male for a lifetime. Female burrowing owls commonly travel and find other mates, while the male stays in his territory and mates with other females.
EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS
The systematic placement of owls is disputed. For example, the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy finds that, based on DNA-DNA hybridization, owls are more closely related to the nightjars and their allies (Caprimulgiformes) than to the diurnal predators in the order Falconiformes; consequently, the Caprimulgiformes are placed in the Strigiformes, and the owls in general become a family, the Strigidae. A recent study indicates that the drastic rearrangement of the genome of the accipitrids may have obscured any close relationship of theirs with groups such as the owls. In any case, the relationships of the Caprimulgiformes, the owls, the falcons, and the accipitrid raptors are not resolved to satisfaction; currently, a trend to consider each group (with the possible exception of the accipitrids) as a distinct order is increasing.
Some 220 to 225 extant species of owls are known, subdivided into two families: typical owls (Strigidae) and barn-owls (Tytonidae). Some entirely extinct families have also been erected based on fossil remains; these differ much from modern owls in being less specialized or specialized in a very different way (such as the terrestrial Sophiornithidae). The Paleocene genera Berruornis and Ogygoptynx show that owls were already present as a distinct lineage some 60–57 million years ago (Mya), hence, possibly also some 5 million years earlier, at the extinction of the nonavian dinosaurs. This makes them one of the oldest known groups of non-Galloanserae landbirds. The supposed "Cretaceous owls" Bradycneme and Heptasteornis are apparently nonavialan maniraptors.
During the Paleogene, the Strigiformes radiated into ecological niches now mostly filled by other groups of birds.[clarification needed] The owls as known today, though, evolved their characteristic morphology and adaptations during that time, too. By the early Neogene, the other lineages had been displaced by other bird orders, leaving only barn-owls and typical owls. The latter at that time were usually a fairly generic type of (probably earless) owls similar to today's North American spotted owl or the European tawny owl; the diversity in size and ecology found in typical owls today developed only subsequently.
Around the Paleogene-Neogene boundary (some 25 Mya), barn-owls were the dominant group of owls in southern Europe and adjacent Asia at least; the distribution of fossil and present-day owl lineages indicates that their decline is contemporary with the evolution of the different major lineages of typical owls, which for the most part seems to have taken place in Eurasia. In the Americas, rather an expansion of immigrant lineages of ancestral typical owls occurred.
The supposed fossil herons "Ardea" perplexa (Middle Miocene of Sansan, France) and "Ardea" lignitum (Late Pliocene of Germany) were more probably owls; the latter was apparently close to the modern genus Bubo. Judging from this, the Late Miocene remains from France described as "Ardea" aureliensis should also be restudied. The Messelasturidae, some of which were initially believed to be basal Strigiformes, are now generally accepted to be diurnal birds of prey showing some convergent evolution towards owls. The taxa often united under Strigogyps were formerly placed in part with the owls, specifically the Sophiornithidae; they appear to be Ameghinornithidae instead.
SYMBOLISM AND MYTHOLOGY
AFRICAN CULTURES
Among the Kikuyu of Kenya, it was believed that owls were harbingers of death. If one saw an owl or heard its hoot, someone was going to die. In general, owls are viewed as harbingers of bad luck, ill health, or death. The belief is widespread even today.
ANCIENT EUROPEAN AND MODERN WESTERN CULTURE
The modern West generally associates owls with wisdom. This link goes back at least as far as Ancient Greece, where Athens, noted for art and scholarship, and Athena, Athens' patron goddess and the goddess of wisdom, had the owl as a symbol.[34] Marija Gimbutas traces veneration of the owl as a goddess, among other birds, to the culture of Old Europe, long pre-dating Indo-European cultures.
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer in his Folk-lore of Shakespeare says that "from the earliest period it has been considered a bird of ill-omen," and Pliny tells us how, on one occasion, even Rome itself underwent a lustration, because one of them strayed into the Capitol. He represents it also as a funereal bird, a monster of the night, the very abomination of human kind. Virgil describes its death-howl from the top of the temple by night, a circumstance introduced as a precursor of Dido's death. Ovid, too, constantly speaks of this bird's presence as an evil omen; and indeed the same notions respecting it may be found among the writings of most of the ancient poets." A list of "omens drear" in John Keats' Hyperion includes the "gloom-bird's hated screech." Pliny the Elder reports that owl's eggs were commonly used as a hangover cure.
HINDUISM
In Hinduism, an owl is the vahana, mount, of the Goddess Lakshmi.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES
People often allude to the reputation of owls as bearers of supernatural danger when they tell misbehaving children, "the owls will get you", and in most Native American folklore, owls are a symbol of death. For example:
According to Apache and Seminole tribes, hearing owls hooting is considered the subject of numerous "bogeyman" stories told to warn children to remain indoors at night or not cry too much, otherwise the owl may carry them away. In some tribal legends, owls are associated with spirits of the dead, and the bony circles around an owl's eyes are said to comprise the fingernails of apparitional humans. Sometimes owls are said to carry messages from beyond the grave or deliver supernatural warnings to people who have broken tribal taboos.
The Aztecs and Maya, along with other natives of Mesoamerica, considered the owl a symbol of death and destruction. In fact, the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, was often depicted with owls. There is an old saying in Mexico that is still in use: Cuando el tecolote canta, el indio muere ("When the owl cries/sings, the Indian dies"). The Popol Vuh, a Mayan religious text, describes owls as messengers of Xibalba (the Mayan "Place of Fright").
The belief that owls are messengers and harbingers of the dark powers is also found among the Hočągara (Winnebago) of Wisconsin.[46] When in earlier days the Hočągara committed the sin of killing enemies while they were within the sanctuary of the chief's lodge, an owl appeared and spoke to them in the voice of a human, saying, "From now on the Hočągara will have no luck." This marked the beginning of the decline of their tribe. An owl appeared to Glory of the Morning, the only female chief of the Hočąk nation, and uttered her name. Soon afterwards she died.
According to the culture of the Hopi, a Uto-Aztec tribe, taboos surround owls, which are associated with sorcery and other evils.
Ojibwe tribes, as well as their Aboriginal Canadian counterparts, used an owl as a symbol for both evil and death. In addition, they used owls as a symbol of very high status of spiritual leaders of their spirituality.
Pawnee tribes viewed owls as the symbol of protection from any danger within their realms.
Pueblo people associated owls with Skeleton Man, the god of death and spirit of fertility.
Yakama tribes use an owl as a powerful totem. Such taboos or totems often guide where and how forests and natural resources are useful with management, even to this day and even with the proliferation of "scientific" forestry on reservations.
Use as rodent control
A purpose-built owl-house or owlery at a farm near Morton on the Hill, England (2006)
Encouraging natural predators to control rodent population is a natural form of pest control, along with excluding food sources for rodents. Placing a nest box for owls on a property can help control rodent populations (one family of hungry barn owls can consume more than 3,000 rodents in a nesting season) while maintaining the naturally balanced food chain
ATTACKS ON HUMANS
Although humans and owls frequently live together in harmony, there have been incidents when owls have attacked humans. In January 2013, a man from Inverness, Scotland suffered heavy bleeding and went into shock after being attacked by an owl, which was likely a 50-cm tall eagle owl.[52] The photographer Eric Hosking lost his left eye after attempting to photograph a tawny owl, which inspired the title of his 1970 autobiography, An Eye for a Bird.
CONSERVATION ISSUES
All owls are listed in Appendix II of the international CITES treaty (the Convention on Illegal Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Although owls have long been hunted, a 2008 news story from Malaysia indicates that the magnitude of owl poaching may be on the rise. In November 2008, TRAFFIC reported the seizure of 900 plucked and "oven-ready" owls in Peninsular Malaysia. Said Chris Shepherd, Senior Programme Officer for TRAFFIC's Southeast Asia office, "This is the first time we know of where 'ready-prepared' owls have been seized in Malaysia, and it may mark the start of a new trend in wild meat from the region. We will be monitoring developments closely." TRAFFIC commended the Department of Wildlife and National Parks in Malaysia for the raid that exposed the huge haul of owls. Included in the seizure were dead and plucked barn owls, spotted wood owls, crested serpent eagles, barred eagles, and brown wood owls, as well as 7,000 live lizards.
WIKIPEDIA
Digital Drugs or Binaural beats or Binaural Tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
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Ceci nést pas un film - Dueto para maça e ovo by Companhia Paulo Ribeiro.
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BIOS by Giorgio Mega & Marta Romaszkan at Liminaria/Interferenze Art Festival.
Photo by Manuela Barile (Binaural Nodar)
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A traditional farewell! Listen with headphones for best effect.
Sorry this is pretty over-exposed - there's also an odd reflection from the windows, but it's sort of fun.
Um território na forma curativa by Luís Costa, Manuela Barile & João Farelo in collaboration with Opusritual
Photo by Manuela Barile (Binaural Nodar)