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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.

For more detailed help, see the OwlPages Rescue page.

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From World Bird Sanctuary

Great Horned Owls, like many raptor species, do not show sexual dimorphism in their plumage between males and females. There is often a size difference, with females generally being larger than the males, but this is not a guaranteed way to tell them apart as there is a overlap in the weight ranges. 23-571 weighs in at 1300g at a healthy weight, which puts them in the weight range of a larger male, but not outside the realm of possibility of a smaller female.

You can compare 571's size to the 11 surrounding babies that they are currently fostering. Some are smaller and others larger. At this age, you can start to see some mature plumage coming in amongst the fluffy body feathers of the babies. This indicates that the babies have reached their full size and all that remains to grow is the rest of their plumage.

Our team has suspected that 571 was male, both based on their size and their less aggressive demeanor. The DNA test results are now back and 571 is....... Male!

23-571 joins Murphy in our club of elite foster dads and needs a name that exemplifies how exceptional he is!! Put your suggestions for a fitting name in the comments below. We will pick our favorite few and then return for a vote. Suggestion period is open until 5/21.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More like Great Horny Owl, am I right people?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You did make me laugh, but they're all foster kids, so he could have lived a very chaste life! 😇

Owl kinky time doesn't really sound like it is a fun time though, so I don't know how exciting being a participant actually is. It sounds like getting pregnant by having someone fall on you.

From Ask an Academic:

Owls are generally monogamous, mating as an exclusive pair either for the season, such as the short-eared owl, or for life, such as the tawny owl. The courtship rituals of the owl varies from species to species, but usually involves calling. Special courtship flights, offers of food and mutual preening may also be involved.

Like most birds and reptiles, owls lack external genitalia, with both sexes instead possessing a cloaca. This is a urogenital opening – an orifice which serves as an opening for the excretion of both urine and feces, as well as serving reproductive purposes. During copulation, sperm are transferred via a ‘cloacal kiss’ – a brief contact of the cloacae, during which the sperm is transferred very quickly into the female reproductive tract. In some birds this can occur in less than half a second.

Although two ovaries are present during the embryonic development of the female bird, the adult usually only possesses a single functional ovary. This is connected to an oviduct, through which the eggs travel, slowly becoming calcified during their journey. Sperm cannot penetrate the calcified eggshell, so must travel up the oviduct to reach the eggs before this happens. Fertilization generally occurs in the infundibulum, a funnel-like cavity where the oviduct opens to the ovary, and each egg is fertilized individually as it is released. The number of eggs produced varies at both species and individual levels, ranging from single eggs to a dozen, although most species produce three or four.