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Happy Superb-Owl Sunday!

Wishing you all a Happy Superb-Owl Sunday! Hoping your favorite team wins!

This is a Verreaux's Eagle-owl photographed before sunrise one morning in Ndutu. Breaking from my #OnThisDay posts, this was actually photographed on February 3, 2017. Here is a little info about the VEO from an earlier post: "Although a very common Owl in sub-saharan Africa, we rarely saw them out in the open. More often they were perched high up in trees with lots of obstruction or distracting backgrounds. This was a very exciting find. Also known as the Giant Eagle-owl, this species is large at a height of approximately two feet but not actually the largest of the owls. It is a nocturnal hunter preying on medium-sized mammals and large birds such as the Hammerkop and Secretary Bird. Ndutu, Tanzania. February 3, 2017

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Uploaded on February 8, 2021
Taken on February 3, 2017