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c/Superbowl
For all your owl related needs!

6天前

I'm All Eyes and Ears!
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anon6789 @lemmy.world 6天前

6天前

Do you still have faith in humanity?

Last year I was feeling really down on people and how the world was going. I signed up for a volunteer gig to get outside and be a little productive.

I mainly expected the work to be satisfying, which it was, but my biggest surprise was how great being around like-minded people that also wanted to make our community better felt.

It feels more like hanging out with friends, even though we're busy as hell, and not like a job because we're all there by choice, and we get to see on a daily basis how our efforts are helping. It may only be a drop in the bucket, but it's not as though we're the only group working for our cause.

It's one of the most satisfying choices I've ever made in my life, and if you can find time (my commitment is 4 hours a week for half the year) it may improve your outlook on things if you're feeling like everything around you is bad.

7天前

A Rough Night for Florida Owl

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 7天前

Every time he falls off the wagon, he ends up in trouble with those dang crows again....

7天前

Effortless

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 7天前

It looks a little odd at first since they do have larger than average wingspans for their size that your average bird.

It's a balancing of evolutionary trade-offs for their stealthy silent flight. They have low density feathers, which cut down on noise, but also efficiency of flapping (think flapping an unfolded sheet of paper vs one folded with corrugations to make a paper fan) so they are more suited to gliding (like this Short Ear's preferred hunting style) or hunting from a perch and diving on prey. This allows them to also just flap less in general, letting them cover territory with less total flapping. I usually describe it as how a larger CPU fan is quieter since it moves a higher volume of air while running at a lower RPM vs a small fan running at high RPM to try and move the same air with small blades.

This is why hawks and other birds can fly much faster than owls, but they need that speed and sharp eyesight to hunt from far away and strike quickly. They're both great at what they do, they just take opposite approaches.

7天前

Effortless

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 7天前

This one took some work for me, as there seemed to be a bit of slang/idiom that was making a lot of the translations come out pretty odd sounding. Facebook and Google did a pretty rough job, but this is from DeepL, and I was pretty satisfied feeling it all made sense.

It was a great post with even more pics than the ones I included here, and I wanted to do Jhonathan and the Shorties justice!

That's why I like to add the original text. Most of us seem to be English speakers, but our French and German speakers have added insight many times from having the original text included.

7天前

The Many Faces of Saw Whet Owls

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 7天前

Lol there's some real characters in this lineup 😂

The more time goes by shows Saw Whet was a darn fine Owl of the Year for us last year.

7天前

The Many Faces of Saw Whet Owls

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 7天前

lol all of them were released after receiving ankle monitors.

7天前

One of Trump’s cruelest policies yet has received almost zero attention | America’s slaughterhouses could become even more dangerous for workers and animals.

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 7天前

Taken together, the draft rules are a “very telling sign of this administration and how they view blue-collar workers…they have decided that they no longer have to care about workers at all.”

If only it was new or just this administration. Thirty years ago in high school we read a book about this same exact garbage from 1906, and it wasn't exactly news then either.