“Catch these talons, fool!”
Australian Masked Owl, not one of our northern hemisphere barn owls. No wonder it looks so large here!
Was gonna say - that’s a heavyweight Barnie!
I was curious about the source of the photo and looked it up. Seems to be from this ABC story about rodenticide.
As soon as I saw “masked owl,” things made much more sense. I knew the Aussie and Tassie ones are the big guys, but I don’t think I’ve seen one next to a human before, so I couldn’t picture the difference. The Tasmanian one is even larger than this.
They like their owls big down there.
That’s good, because I don’t think owls like that would give them much choice in the matter! 😁
You don’t want to open your front door and see this guy and his buddy the Powerful Owl standing there waiting for you.
they look so cute in their blankie :3
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🎼Rising up
Onto the thermals
Did my release
Got my taaaggg
And the last known salmon
Is swimming there in a stream
Just an owl and his need to to surviiiiive
