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Snowy Owls carrying their young in flight? - BirdForum There seems to be a proliferation of AI-generated bird images and videos on social media, and snowy owls seem to be right up there as favoured subjects I came across a similar 'snowy owl and cute chick' image on Bluesky this morning which had got 1000s of likes and loads of 'aw how cute' level of comments - a quick Google image search found the same picture on TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest etc
owls in the north east - BirdForum There are several sites in Durham where the 5 common species are regular Durham has 40+ pairs of Long-eareds, 300+ pairs of Little Owls and a fairly healthy population of Barn Owls Updates on the annual owl surveys are in the DBC magazine and often mentioned on the Durham thread on Birdforum
Non-invasive Owling spotlight - BirdForum However, for owls and night animals, more important is not to shine directly at them, but switch on the light pointing at the side, and slowly move it on the target Also, avoid shining at things other than the owl, especially not at parts of your or other peoples body Most important is: keep very quiet
Great Horned Owl threat to big house cats? | BirdForum For a 3 5 lb owl to try this with a healthy 16 lb cat capable of fighting back with claws and fangs would be hazardous in the extreme, maybe even suicidal Owls, like other active predators, simply cannot afford to risk serious injury affecting their continuing ability to successfully hunt by attacking such dangerous prey
Goyt valley - BirdForum Spent the last two evenings watching a hunting long-eared owl in the Goyt valley Great flight views in good light - most enjoyable
Are birds of prey dumb? - BirdForum The myth that owls are inteligent comes from their association with the goddess Athena- the goddess of knowledge Hence Athena noctua, the Little owl, also the emblem of the city of Athens Ask anyone who has worked with owls- they are pretty dumb on the whole and the best bit about that is that a group of owls is known as a 'parliament' I leave you to draw your own conclusions! :t:
Equipment suggestion for recording owls for research To locate the owls' calls, you can place three precisely located recorders and then calculate the exact position of the calling owl using time differences in post analysis This requires either recorders that start synchronously to within 1 ms (AudioMoth Dev with GPS module, Frontier Labs BAR-LT, Wildlife Acoustics SM4 TS), or subsequently synchronized recordings
The story of the owl and nhengure - BirdForum Unfortunately, owls have a very bad image in Zimbabwe and, I suspect, most of sub-Saharan Africa In this country they are associated with witchcraft and are therefore regarded as a bad omen It is believed that owls are the companions of witches who do all their evil work at night
Springwatch 2025 - BirdForum Gillian has been totally sidelined and forced out as was the brilliant Martin from earlier series!! Iolohas been totally sidelined to a bleak industrial dockland in Belfast with absolutely no wildlife whatsoever apart from a bucket of muddy molluscs
What is a Scops Owl? | BirdForum I think the original generic name Otus, in which all of the so-called Scops-owls, or those in the New World, called Screech-owls were originally placed was, and to some extent, still is a catch-all grouping not originally defined by strict morphological features other than that of that derived from the Greek: Scops = the little horned owl