• anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    I was leaning towards male for this one. Makes can still have a modest amount of speckles, but tend to have less as they age. Here is a male and female pair. You can see the male has spots like the post picture, but considerably less than the female.

    They start off all black as babies.

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      2 months ago

      Ooh that is significant difference,
      I saw couple of almost pure white from previous posts, so owl from this seemd to have more specks.

      But this is night & day difference in not only quantity but size also.

      Young ones are like polar explorers in fur coat with snow goggles (like black eye piercing trough tiny holes).

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        2 months ago

        They’re not all quite this different, but it’s much more of a visual clue than we get with most owls.

        The babies are so cute. These and the Saw Whet owls look so different between baby and adult.

        Baby

        Adult