From David Driver
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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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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Yes, that tensed up facial disc looks amazing!
They have voluntary muscle control over all their feathers, and can tweak their position and rigidity to pick up different frequencies of sound and pinpoint the source location. Amazing stuff!
It's beautiful, but a little scary. Weird, but not in a bad way!
I feel it's a look of complete dedication to the action it's about to perform. One can see its full mind and body working in perfect synchronicity.
The eyes are on its goal. The facial ring is tense to collect every piece of sonic data. We know that a silent dive is about to occur and the talons will swing forward and load themselves with shocking energy to snap closed on impact.
There's no maliciousness or ego. The owl is just doing the job it was made to do. The quirky moments that make us adore the owls are nowhere to be seen right now. We are only left with an untamed wild instinct that makes us respect them.
While we share the same physical world, moments like this show us we don't really live in the same reality anymore as these creatures like we once did, thousands of years ago. Seeing moments like this reminds us of the gap between us and the wild we have left, and the duality we have built between civilization and the primal.
Or something like that, maybe... 🤪