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Cleansing The Palate And Spitting Up Feathers: The International Festival Of Owls
Offbeat  (tags: animals, interesting, unusual, owls, news, culture )

Cal
- 80 days ago - npr.org
What a hoot! This is the weekend of the International Festival Of Owls, held in Houston, Minnesota, at the Houston Nature Center
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Mystery of Owls' Rotating Necks Solved
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, owls )

Cher
- 109 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The mystery of how owls can rotate their necks almost 270 degrees without suffering serious harm has been solved by scientists
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Cat & Owl Are Unlikely, Yet Adorable, Best Friends - VIDEO
Offbeat  (tags: black cat, owls, friendship, bonding, best friends, animals )

Simone
- 173 days ago - godvine.com
When you see these unusual best friends, you'll do a double take! A little black cat is best friends with a happy owl - and they have been for a long time. We could learn a thing or two about friendship from these happy guys!
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Owl Babies in Our Care
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, owls )

Cher
- 267 days ago - rspca.org.uk
Our West Hatch Wildlife Centre has seen an influx of tawny owlets brought to them for care this year, up by a third on last year.
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Wild Baby Owls Discovered in the Boot of Car
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Cher
- 351 days ago - rspca.org.uk
We're investigating after two tawny owlets were found in the boot of a car during a routine police check.
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Beauty And the Noble Beech
Offbeat  (tags: trees, beech, Japan, Nagano Prefecture, beauty, Kurohime, woods, bears, bats, owls, forest, wildlife, trees )

Naoko
- 715 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp
Coming from Britain, I thought I knew what beech woods were like, but this was far mote wild and beautiful than I'd ever seen. The older trees were massive, the silver-gray bark on their huge trunks mottled with pastel greens and yellows of lichens.
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Cat and Barn Owl Are Best Friends - Video
Offbeat  (tags: animals, cats, friends, interesting, owls, off-beat, unusual )

Caree
- 727 days ago - ecorazzi.com
The person who captured footage of the cat (named Fum) and the barn owl (named Gebra) managed to grab video of the two playing together. The owl swooping in low and the cat jumping to reach it, the pair climbing a tree together, and at one point we even..
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Harry Potter's Owls: Make Them Disappear! .
Offbeat  (tags: harry potter movies, owls, cruelty charges, trainers )

Simone
- 944 days ago - peta.org
If you think that animals who are used in movies are trained with a magic wand, consider the latest charges lodged against two British animal trainers who supplied a tawny owl named Cuddles for the production of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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Imperial Valley's Western Burrowing Owls Suffer a Steep Drop in Population
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Cher
- 965 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Southern California's Imperial Valley, long considered a place where the western burrowing owl thrives, has seen a dramatic decline in the species' population in recent years.
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Successful Rescue and Relocation of Young Owls to Bird Sanctuary EGS
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Cher
- 989 days ago - vier-pfoten.org
The major task FOUR PAWS partner organisation EGS (a sanctuary and care centre for wild birds located in Haringsee, Austria) has to deal with in spring and early summer, is caring for abandoned young birds. Most of them have been rejected by their
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Grand Owl Age: 20-Year-Old Tawny at Mere Sands
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, owls )

Cher
- 1048 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Volunteers at the Lancashire Wildlife Trust's Mere Sands Wood have discovered that one of the tawny owls at the reserve lived to the ripe old age of 20 years and nine months. The owl's body was found in February by the Thursday Group of volunteers at the
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Wildlife Rehabilitators Help Young Owl Make A Soft Landing! Video!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, owls, rescued )

Cher
- 1066 days ago - wgrz.com
The young Great Horned Owl has had quite a long journey in it's short life. She was rescued by the SPCA after they got a call from a landowner in Lewiston who had found the baby owl on the ground.Unknown circumstances had forced the owl from it's nest,
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Appeals Court Upholds Critical Habitat Designation for Mexican Spotted Owl
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Cher
- 1077 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
An appeals court says a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to designate 8.6 million acres in four Western states as critical habitat for an endangered owl will stand
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Gallery: Owl Rehabillitation
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, owls, rehabilitation, photo gallery )

Cher
- 1121 days ago - tri-cityherald.com
Michele Caron runs the owl foster program for the nonprofit Blue Mountain Wildlife of Pendleton, which focuses on raptor rescue and rehabilitation, at her property in Benton City. She has long eared owls, screech owls and barn owls currently.
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Your Morning Adorable: Owl Loves a Good Head Scratch! Video!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, owls, head scratch )

Cher
- 1144 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
We can't help it -- it delights us to no end when animals make it known how much they enjoy being petted or scratched.
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