Variation are the difference that exist in the organism in terms of the body size and can be acted upon by natural selection.
Natural selection could act on the owl body size, favor the selection of owl with small body size especially when resources available are limited and can only sustain small number of individuals leading to availability of owl with small body size in such area and a gradual reduction in the number of owl with large body size.
I think your answer is a hot summer. during this phase, there would be rapid growth in vegetation leading to increased population in rabbits and other rodents...
There are 3 different alleles: IA, IB and i - IA and IB are codominants, i is recessive. Codominance means neither allele can mask the expression of the other and both alleles A and B are expressed in the blood type.