Wow, these fellas look like hawks! Interesting how versatile the owls are!
Also thank you for sharing all these great owl pics and info, I joined the group spontaneously when I saw an interesting picture on my feed and now I've kinda started to look forward new owl news - these posts often make my day! Quality stuff!
If you haven't already, check out the Owl-natomy posts! They are a great way to learn a lot about the general anatomy of owls; I at least learned a lot from those posts.
Probably explains a lot of “tree-men” type things. That guy is a master of disguise!
What do they mean by “feather tufts”, though? Is that some banding or flashes of color on wings or something that serve as an indicator? (Like deer tails?)
Think how long human kind hasn't had corrective lenses, only had moonlight to see at night, and a very limited understanding of the natural world, and you can imagine many tall tales and mythical monsters could be traced back to owls!
Tufts are the horns, though the proper name is plumicorns, which is an awesome word and should be more popular.
Unless it was completely faked, the photographer likely has no choice for this. Lowering the aperture to get a wider depth of field wou reduce the amount of light significantly to either introduce motion blur (if not on a tripod) or significant noise. Also, this sort of angle on a telephoto lens would be very difficult to not blur out
Unless it is faked in, it's difficult to tell though
Yes indeed, but I don't know if I'd need both hands to count the number if Americans I've heard use "whom" in a sentence outside of English class, let alone used it correctly. I don't even feel I see it written often here.
I mean hey its important to note that its not scientifically accurate. I think its a nice meme though as it really does look like criss cross applesauce.
I need an example pronunciation of how it doesn't rhyme because the only way I can hear it in my head rhymes. I've never heard of this name for the seating method though.
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