There can be more than one issue, of which both of these are a problem.

The boomers and the rediculously wealthy have the same mindset: fuck you, I’ve got mine

Tbh, if I knew that already then I probably would have voted for the burrowing owl. I appreciate the education!

Tbh, I was going to vote for the boreal owl, but after reading your propaganda for the burrowing owl, I can’t not vote for it. It’s an owl roadrunner!

This is the answer I was looking for

Everything by Ado, but I’m especially enjoying The Story of the wind and I.

You can do HIIT exercises on a bike - more easily on a stationary trainer. People do it as a way to increase their FTP. I’ve not tried it as that kind of suffering isn’t my jam. But if you love cycling and want to do HIIT, you can

Broski, you got this!

Did not know, thanks for the info!

Hedwig! Snowy owls are so pretty!

One vote for the Sooty Owl.

Ah, not a thing here sadly. Maybe I’ll see if I can find a recipe myself. They sound interesting

Mr Mottle is rather striking!

Sounds interesting. Do you have a recipe handy?

That’s a great summary.

I did find the bit about saying asymmetrical acoustics developing several times a bit strange as that’s morelike how convergent evolution works rather than speciation works. But from the little I’ve read, owls are all genetically related, so those two things don’t quite square to me.

Not that I’m an evolution expert, just find it interesting

I was wondering how they have good hearing if they don’t have an external ear, but it mentioned towards the end that the eyes kind of work like that. It’s quite fascinating. I didn’t realise that they had good hearing, but I guess it makes sense that they do.

Also interesting that social creatures have a higher brain capacity. Which makes sense when I think about it, but also not something that had clicked for me.

I’m not sure octopi are social, but I know they are intelligent, but nothing else is jumping out at me as not being social but intelligent

Huh, interesting. I didn’t realise their eyes were quite so oddly shaped. I imagine maximising their rods to pick up as much light as possible.

Seeing the skeleton of an owl is a game-changer for realising how much of them is floof!

That’s pretty cool that they are able to recognise others owls based on their calls. I guess they’re not called wise for nothing.

Do you know how their intelligence compares to corvids or parrots?

Apparently NZ has 3 species of owls. I wasn’t aware we had a small population of Small (Athena) owls in the south island.

A quick wiki tells me that they were considered the same species until recently. It does look remarkably similar.

I don’t imagine that it would be there naturally (although I’m very unfamiliar with import of animals into the states nor migration patterns of owls if they have them. Although I do know barn owls made it to NZ from Oz so maybe I’m just blissfully unaware) so I imagine it was introduced at some point?

Its actually bigger than I thought.

Where I live, it’s quite common to hear Rurus calling not long after dark. Some of the screeches they make are not at all like their name

That’s cool, awesome you can give something back to what you love.

Owls are definitely pretty cool animals, I’ll look forward to seeing further posts!

As a side note, I was randomly scrolling All when I came across this post.

I was slightly confused to see an owl match up in a super bowl community, but thought that’s cool though.

Having actually scrolled through some more posts, all about owls, I realised that the community is instead superb owls >. < feeling a little silly, but I subscribed hoping to see more owls <3