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@ anon6789 @lemmy.world

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For all your owl related needs!

  • My Buddy

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  • Crikey

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  • They've inherited a third leg joint, the tarsus, from their dinosaur ancestors. (Green)

    It works with their system of tendons to make a clenched foot the relaxed state. This lets them hold onto prey or a branch while they sleep at maximum force without having to constantly export force, it just happens.

    The toes also have an internal ratcheting lock to aid that grip. See how the red and blue ridged sections lock when the foot is clenched.

  • Owl by the Pound

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  • Yes, the Screech Owls dropped quite a pile of them last year, but they are pretty small. One of our Great Horn's longer ones would be nice and probably hold up to some more enthusiastic handling. Even just that and one from one of our hawk or raven guests would be a good comparison. The first place I visited that had a feather demo had a huge condor feather as well, and that was massive and stiff... for a feather. You could swing it like a sword and hear it cut the air.

  • Owl by the Pound

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  • It is totally adorable. I sorta wish it had its plumicorns down so it was even rounder.

  • Owl by the Pound

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  • Owls are so soft due to the low density of their feathers compared to other birds! I'm trying to get work to collect feathers for a touch station so guests can feel how different they are.

  • Overwintering in Comfort

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  • Oh, a barred hawk looks very neat! It made me think of a larger peregrine's body with a caracara's head.

    I hope all birds get to be happy birds!

  • Overwintering in Comfort

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  • No need to worry about that! They have several built-in methods of limiting hands-on time! (Oooo...double hyphenated words!)

    As much as I signed up to work with owls, I honestly find the hawks to have much friendlier dispositions. Some are jumpy, a few are pretty chill given their circumstances for being there, but every owl we have hates people so much! All I ever get is angry sounds and defensive posturing. The hawks can give curious squeaks, will fly around and check me out cautiously, sometimes let me give them a gentle hose shower in the summer, things like that.

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  • We don't sell any as far as I know. We probably save a few for the education camps. The ones they sell are sterilized, and I don't know what is involved in that whole process. I clean up plenty of them though. I've thought about dissecting them before since my science group never did that in school, but since I'm feeding them, I already know what's in it!

    I'd like to see more hawk pellets and look how they compare to the owl ones. I'd like to learn about more raptors, but doing all these owl posts here already consumes a lot of time.

  • Owl by the Pound

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  • The trick is to buy them at the end of the day. They've probably cast their pellet by then, so you're not paying for that extra weight.

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  • It's so spherical!

  • A Rough Night for Florida Owl

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  • They'll get it fixed up! Florida seems to have a surprising number of raptor rehabs (Tampa Bay, ARC, Audubon Center, CROW are just some I'm featured numerous times here) so those crows will soon be sorry! 😜

  • More Than Words

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  • More Than Words

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  • Overwintering in Comfort

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  • Lemmy Client

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  • It looks like that's what I've been using. No wonder I find it so pleasing to read even without my glasses.

  • Lemmy Client

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  • Summit

    Google Play and Obtanium/GitHub links on there.

    It is open source, but dev has had issues with F-droid's approval process last I checked. Not a deal breaker for me.

    Summit is heads above the other clients for me. Dev has added a bunch of feature requests from me, so that certainly helps. Steady development of the app and they respond to everyone quickly on here with questions/comments.

    I've had luck with Piefed on it when .world was having uptime issues.

  • Are AI wives a thing now?

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  • I've seen at least one.

  • If an AI simulation of your dead grandmother is indistinguishable from the real thing, is that literally a ghost?

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  • Nah, my gram was my favorite person ever, and she lived the life she wanted to live and she chose to leave when she did. She was one of a kind and it would be a cheap, heart-wrenching impersonation to have someone try to bring her back as an algorithm. I think I would be very upset if anyone tried that.

    It would not be a ghost of her any more than a biography is a ghost of someone. It could look and sound similar, it could have a lot of her memories or speech patterns, but that's all an interpretation of memories of her, but nothing of the lady herself.

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    Owl Crate Training

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    Skinny Legs

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    I do what I want, when I want!

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    Not Built for Swimming

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    Giggles

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    New species status for South American owl after two centuries of debate (A new Spectacled Owl!)

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    Ice Bath

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    BirdNET-Pi units to be deployed across Sax-Zim Bog

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    A Treasure in the Brambles

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    Chimney Sitter

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    Regrowing a Beak!

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    Padawan

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    Looking Pale Today?

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    Snowy Looking for Lobster

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    Guys vs Gals! (Sexual dimorphism in Barn Owls)

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    Spritz

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    Third Chance (or... The Myth of the "Wise" Owl) 🙄

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    Low and Slow

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    Hush Demonstrates Toe Dusting

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    Is this the world's biggest owl gathering? During winter nearly 1,000 owls descend onto a tiny Serbian town centre – and at night it's party time