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If you find an injured owl:
Note your exact location so the owl can be released back where it came from. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist to get correct advice and immediate assistance.
Minimize stress for the owl. If you can catch it, toss a towel or sweater over it and get it in a cardboard box or pet carrier. It should have room to be comfortable but not so much it can panic and injure itself. If you can’t catch it, keep people and animals away until help can come.
Do not give food or water! If you feed them the wrong thing or give them water improperly, you can accidentally kill them. It can also cause problems if they require anesthesia once help arrives, complicating procedures and costing valuable time.
If it is a baby owl, and it looks safe and uninjured, leave it be. Time on the ground is part of their growing up. They can fly to some extent and climb trees. If animals or people are nearby, put it up on a branch so it’s safe. If it’s injured, follow the above advice.
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From Izzy Edwards
Great Gray Owl dwarfed by Ponderosa Pines
Though it is the longest of owls thanks to that tail, there are some mighty trees that will remind us we are all tiny beings compared to them.
So much moss on those branches. What kind of environment supports that?
Izzy posts a lot to the Pacific Northwest Birding group so my guess is somewhere within the PNW Temperate Rainforest.
Most people probably don't think of the US and Canada as places with rainforest, but just because we don't have monkeys and toucans doesn't mean it's not rainforest! 😄
I would love to see it someday!
The Pacific temperate rain forests are characterized by a high amount of rainfall, in some areas more than 300 cm (10 ft) per year and moderate temperatures in both the summer and winter months (10–24 °C or 50–75 °F).
Oh wow! That's really cool. When I think of rain forests, it's always like +40 °C, impenetrable vegetation, super tall exotic trees, big snakes, huge spiders, bright colored frogs and so on. Not owls on pine trees.
Yes, it's far from that typical image.
As a related fact about misleading ecosystems, Antarctica is the world's largest desert with around 50mm of annual rain on the non-coastal areas!
I recall seeing a documentary about some cold desert in china. So, plenty of sand and dry air, but also freezing temperatures. Strange place.
really nice! composition
I really love it. This person has such a great portfolio. I swear every shit is gorgeous.