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RE: Owls - Pantherinae - 02-07-2015

Snowy owl predation on other owls and birds of prey

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RE: Owls - Pantherinae - 02-07-2015

Eurasian Eagle Owl predation on other owls and birds of prey. 


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brilliant documentary - Pantherinae - 02-07-2015

hello everyone! just had to share this old sweedish documentary about owls and Birds of prey, with eurasian eagle owl playing the lead act! 
and show one of the most beuatiful faunas and forrest's in the whole world the scandinavian: europe's last wilderness!
 



 

he's speaking sweedish no problems for me, but I understand the difficulties for others to understand, but the fotage is wonderful! 

RE: brilliant documentary - peter - 02-08-2015

Great. I remember another one made by the Lindblads ('Our Tigers'). It was broadcasted on Dutch television a long time ago. Best one I saw. I only found a clip of the documentary (posted on the tiger extinction thread), but maybe you can find more. Give it a try and thanks in advance.

RE: Owls - Tshokwane - 06-29-2016

Indian Scops Owl pair


TATR, Maharashtra. June 2016. Credits to Vidya Vijay Kulkarni‎

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RE: Owls - Pantherinae - 07-07-2016

Great post!

RE: Owls - Tshokwane - 09-02-2016

Collared scops owl / sattal /Aug 2016 india. Credits to ‎Rahul Sharma‎.

A beauty.

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RE: Owls - Tshokwane - 09-12-2016

Great Gray Owl, up close and personal

Short clip, about 30 seconds, of my encounter with the male great gray owl this morning. Credits to Deby Dixon.





RE: Owls - tonybritton - 11-17-2016

Wonderful collection of images. Well done!

Tony

RE: Owls - Tshokwane - 01-02-2017

Credits to ‎Hitesh Oberoi‎.

Barn Owl 


Ahmednagar Maharashtra 

Dec 2016

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RE: Owls - Tshokwane - 01-02-2017

Credits to ‎Prashant Patil‎.

Indian eagle Owl, 


Solapur, Maharashtra, January 2017. 
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RE: Owls - epaiva - 05-24-2017

Burrowing Owl (Speotyto cunicularia)
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Burrowing Owl (Speotyto cunicularia) small 22 cm. diurnal Owls with long legs, they are very active living in pairs in open spaces inside Burrows, normally they dont go too far from their burrows because they are prey of eagles and larger owls. They have as many as 10 chicks during the dry season where it is easier for them to find treir prey (insects, little mammals, small snakes and scorpions)

RE: Owls - Pckts - 06-01-2017

The only shot of an Owl I could get in Tadoba

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RE: Owls - epaiva - 06-21-2017

Barn Owl in Estado Apure, Venezuela
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RE: Owls - epaiva - 08-03-2017

Cuba`s extint gian owl, Ornimegalonyx

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The Cuban giant owl or giant cursorial owl (Ornimegalonyx) is an extinct genus of giant owl that measured 1.1 metres (3 ft 7 in) and it problably exceeded 9 kg (20 lb). It looked a lot like the small Burrowing Owl (Speotyto cunicularia) it is believed to be the largest owl that ever existed. It lived on the island of Cuba.
The Cuban giant owl is believed to have preyed principally on large rodents including Heteropsomys, Capromys, Geocapromys, and Macrocapromys (the size of modern nutria or capybara) and the ground sloths Cubanocnus, Miocnus, Mesocnus, and Megalocnus.It was probably an ambush predator that would pounce on unsuspecting prey with its crushing talons.
The first fossil specimen was mistakenly described as a bird in the family Phorusrhacidae, in part because the bones were so large. In 1961, Pierce Brodkorb reviewed the findings and placed them properly, with the owls. Remains have been abundant throughout the island, in cave deposits from the Late Pleistocene period (126,000 to 11,700 years ago) and at least three nearly complete skeletons have been found.