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Great Gray Owl, Ada County, Idaho
"The Great Gray Owl is a dapper owl dressed in a gray suit with a bow tie across its neck and a surprised look on its face. In the stillness of a cold mountain meadow the elusive giant quietly floats on broad wings across meadows and openings in evergreen forests. They are mostly owls of the boreal forest with small populations in western mountains, but in some years they move farther south in search of food, giving some a unique opportunity to see this majestic owl."
Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa). Lifer # 249. Dunrobin, Ontario, Canada. April 6th, 2019.
I took me a while to post this one. I ended up in the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Hospital a few days after taking this shot. This almost became my last lifer!! Appreciate every lifer folks!
Les Cèdres (Québec)
À la volée
Cette majestueuse chouette a comblé toutes les attentes des photographes. Nous l'avons capté perchée sur une branche, posée au sol, perchée sur un piquet de clôture. Cependant les dizaines de poses en plein vol qu'elle nous a offertes, demeurent les captures les plus spectaculaires. Toutes aussi splendides que différentes. J'ai fait une recherche dans Flickr pour voir les poses en vol, et elles sont toutes originales.
Pour cette photo, j'ai pu profiter d'un soleil radieux et de la réflexion de la lumière par la neige. Les ombres étaient complètement débouchées.
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On the fly
This majestic owl has fulfilled all the expectations of photographers. We caught it perched on a branch, standing on the ground, perched on a fence post. However the dozens of poses in full flight, that this bird offered us, remain the most spectacular catches. All as splendid as different. I did a search in Flickr to see the poses in flight, and these poses were all particular.
For this picture, I was able to enjoy a radiant sun and the reflection of light by snow. The shadows were completely illuminated.
Excuse me if the translation is not perfect!
Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa) patiently roosting in a bare aspen along the roadway in the boreal forest region near Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
19 March, 2011.
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sova jastrebača (Strix uralensis / Ural Owl / Habichtskauz)
Zoološki vrt Grada Zagreba, Hrvatska / Zagreb ZOO, Croatia
mudra sova / the wise owl
The most common owl in Britain and also known as the ‘Brown Owl’, this nocturnal species hunt a largely rodent diet in woodland. Tawny owls use their excellent hearing to find prey in the dark and use their ‘tawny’ coloured feathers to blend in perfectly with their habitat.
Looking through photos taken over the past year, but not posted.
From November 2024.
This Great Gray Owl has two unusual white primary flight feathers showing, and one white secondary flight feather. I have not seen this before.
A bit of leucism, I suppose, showing a bit of reduced pigmentation.
Great Grey Owl Portrait
The great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) is found throughout Northern Europe, Northern Asia and a significant proportion of North America. They are quite large birds, rivalling the Eurasian Eagle Owl in size. The great grey owl has a large, rounded head and yellow eyes, with light underparts mottled with darker grey feathers. Their wings and back are darker grey with lighter bars.
The great grey owl has a large "facial disk." The facial disk is a concave circle of feathers around the eyes of the bird. It helps to collect sound waves and direct them toward the owl's ears, helping the owl to locate its prey by sound. The great grey owl has the largest facial disk of any bird of prey.
Their diet consists mainly of small mammals and their preferred prey is voles, however they will also eat gophers, weasels, squirrels, rabbits, rats and mice. They nest in dense coniferous forests in most of the northern hemisphere.
The female will lay between two to six eggs at one- to two-day intervals. The female does all of the incubation, which starts when the first egg is laid. After four to six weeks the chicks hatch. The male provides all the food for the young, which is torn into smaller pieces by the female. When food is scarce the female great grey owl will often starve herself in order to feed her chicks, and may lose up to a third of her body weight. The chicks will leave the nest after approximately a month and can fly well after two months. The young stay close to home and are cared for by the female for some time after leaving the nest.
Coruja-do-mato
Tawny Owl
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Since Strix drew some inspiration from the Batman - he's a great detective, works mostly at night keeping to the shadows and loves hanging out on rooftops - Gotham seems like a place he'd be happy to call home.
Taken in Drune Gotham