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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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I was really surprised reading about the "climate control" provided by the shelter. It looks like it would trap heat, and in a positive way it does. It's amazing what they have been able to figure out over countless generations.
I think they are fascinating to watch, it's like a beaver dam in a tree. The barn owls here settle in the dark spots of open roofs I remember they have a distinctive avian smell it's kind of a gentle smell.
Oh wow, you've gotten to see these in person?
It's funny to think all these amazing things we see online and can't believe they exist are often times just a regular part of other people's neighborhood area.
I forget the user, but I remember one Australian here I was talking with, I asked with all their animals that seem extreme to us in North America if there were any American animals they found fascinating and they said squirrels, one of the most mundane and ubiquitous animals here that a lot of people find pesty.
Totally! I also remember reading about something similar:
https://asknature.org/strategy/asymmetric-burrow-openings-create-passive-ventilation/
I always wonder how this stuff is passed on. Things like this, or the megapodes or crocodilians that need to keep eggs at precise temps, I have no idea either how they would ever figure it out, determine that there is causality, and then pass it on.
Evolution is fun like that, I wonder what the other variations were like before the evolved this particular way
Exactly! There's still a huge difference between a bunch of nests next to each other and this.
The more cool facts I kept reading about the nests, I started picturing it as the bird version of a Dyson Sphere. 😆
I'd watch a movie with that premise 😄