Harry's owl Hedwig is a Snowy Owl. She's a female but, in the movie, the actors playing her are males ( one of the owls playing Hedwig was also the very first cast member to be chosen! ). You can tell that the owl playing Hedwig in the photo is really a male because his plumage is very white: female Snowy Owls have dark markings. Females are also bigger and heavier, and so would be a little harder for human actors to handle ( healthy males average about 4 pounds, females almost 4 1/2 pounds ). They have powerful talons. You can't see in the photo that Daniel Radcliffe is wearing thick leather protection on his arm. Claws that can kill a large duck through thick feathers can be pretty hard on human arms, too, even when the owl is just trying to balance itself.
Seven different owls played the role of Hedwig. Their names are Gizmo, Kasper, Oops, Swoops, Oh Oh, Elmo and Bandit. You can found out some interesting things on The Pet Place site about Harry Potter.
Real Snowy Owls live in the arctic tundra, in North America, Europe, and Asia. A few breed in the northern British Isles. Long ago, when the Arctic climate extended farther south than now, Snowy Owls lived much farther south. Cave art by Paleolithic people of Europe includes an etched outline of two Snowy Owls and their chicks on a cave wall in Ariege, France. This particular prehistoric drawing happens to make the Snowy Owl the first recognizeable bird species to be depicted in art anywhere in the world.
Snowy Owls are predators, and eat only animals, never plants. Their main prey species is the lemming, a fierce little rodent smaller than a chipmunk. Lemmings have enormous population fluctuations from one year to the next. When lemmings are abundant, Snowy Owls may eat hardly anything else. They usually swallow each lemming whole, head first, but if they're not too hungry, they sometimes bite off just the head, or even eat parts in small bits. But when lemming numbers are down, Snowy Owls eat a lot of other things. Depending on where they live, they may eat a lot of snowshoe hares, grebes and ducks ( especially Horned Grebes ), ptarmigans, ground squirrels, rats, partridge, and even fish. When a Snowy Owl's face gets gooped up with blood and guts, it sometimes cleans up by wiping its face in the snow.
Global warming is expected to hurt Snowy Owls over much of their range. Hedwig is lucky she lives in a magical world!
The Weasley family has a very clumsy owl named Errol.
In the movies he's a Great Gray Owl.
I don't think his species is actually mentioned in the books, but my friend Katty from Belgium found that he IS called a Great Gray Owl on J.K.Rowling's Web site.
Measured from head to tail, the Great Gray Owl is the biggest owl in the world. But even though they're an inch or so longer than Snowy Owls and look just as big, they weigh much less than Snowy Owls, sometimes less than half! Also, their wingspan isn't as long as that of Snowy Owls, probably because their wings don't carry nearly as much weight. Great Gray Owls specialize on mice and voles, and have very thin toes compared to other huge owls.
In North America, wild Great Gray Owls live in Alaska and much of Canada down to northeastern Minnesota, and down into the mountainous areas of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. In Europe and Asia, they are found in northern Scandinavia, Russia, Siberia, northern Mongolia, Northern Manchuria, Amurland, and Sakhalin. They make it to Great Britain only in the magical world of Harry Potter.
Real Great Gray Owls cannot carry very heavy items because they themselves are so light (usually less than 3 pounds!), and their feet are fairly weak. When I was taking care of injured birds, I once had to go rescue a Great Gray Owl that I then transferred to a raptor specialist. Normally over 90% of a Great Gray Owl's diet is one species--meadow voles. When they eat larger prey, such as rabbits and squirrels, they must sit on the animal for many hours, biting off small chunks of meat.
The Weasley's Great Gray Owl, Errol, is very clumsy. Real owls simply cannot crash the way Errol does in the movie. Not even the owl actor who plays Errol could really crash like that--like other birds, owls have hollow bones and are much too fragile to slam into tables and windows. In the movie, they filmed a real Great Gray Owl flying gracefully through the Errol scenes. Then they substituted a dummy owl for the crashes.
Pigwidgeon is so minute that some people have suggested that he might be a Little Owl, one very small owl found in England. This owl's scientific name is Athene noctua, and it is fairly common in much of its range, in southern and central Europe and Asia, and northern Africa. Little Owls aren't native to England, but were introduced there in the late 1800s. Little Owls are not found anywhere naturally in North America, but they are in the same genus, and closely related to, the Burrowing Owl. Like the Burrowing Owl, the Little Owl is found in open habitats, and is often active in the daytime as well as the night. The Little Owl often perches on posts and other look-outs. Like most tiny owls, the Little Owl eats many insects, which it can catch on the wing.
The Little Owl does have some interesting mythology of its own, being the sacred owl of the goddess Athene--that's how it got its scientific name. And it is shown on coins from ancient Athens.
But according to J.K. Rowling's own website, and supported by Mary Grandpre's lovely illustration in Chapter 22 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Pigwidgeon is a Eurasian (Common) Scops Owl. This owl, even tinier than a Little Owl and more closely related to the Screech Owls of America, has "ear tufts" ( feathers that stick up on the head and look like ears ). The owl illustration for this chapter clearly shows those feather tufts.
We hope the moviemakers use a scops owl when Pigwidgeon finally appears: he wasn't in the third or fourth movies at all, which has been a big disappointment to me and many others!
Malfoy's owl is the largest, heaviest owl in Europe, an Eagle Owl. Eagle Owls are not found in the United States, they live in Europe and Asia. Eagle Owls are not native to Great Britain, but a few pairs have escaped captivity. Scientists hope they don't become established in the wild in England because like all introduced animals, they will almost assuredly disturb the balance of nature already there. But in their native range these magnificent birds are an important part of that balance. Eagle Owls have oranger eyes than Great Horned Owls, are slightly larger, and have heavy, vertical streaks on the front, rather than the finer, horizontal barring of the Great Horned Owl. Again, notice how it perches with the two normal front toes facing forward. ( the "thumb" toe and the back toe face backward ).
Throughout the Harry Potter movies, there are lots of owls here and there.
The owl shown in many of the posters, screensaver, and other promotional material for the movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is a Great Horned Owl. This owl lives in North, Central, and South America, but is not found in the wild in England or any other place on that side of the Atlantic Ocean. I don't know if this promotional material was used in England, but it makes a lot of sense for an American owl to deliver invitations to the movie to people in Canada and the U.S. Notice that the owl has two front claws on each foot facing forward. Owls have three front toes and one back toe on each foot. But one of the front claws is opposable, and rotates backward the way we use our thumb. So the way this owl is carrying the letter to Harry is, indeed, exactly the way a real owl would carry mail. Notice that owls prefer air mail.
In real life, large species of owls sometimes eat smaller species. Real owls are extremely stressed by being near other owls. But filming the scene on the left did not stress the owls. Why? This scene was filmed over and over, with different owls each time, and then the films were digitally manipulated to make it appear that all the owls were there together at the same time.
One corn broom weights 0.6 kilograms. Snowy Owl often kill snowshoe hares and can carry them to their nestlings. A snowshoe hare weighs over 1 kilogram, so the weight of a real broom wouldn't be a problem for a Snowy Owl. And a Snowy Owl's talons can easily grip a broom handle. So yes, a real Snowy Owl could really carry a Nimbus 2000. But the Snowy Owl in movie scenes simply flew through, and then the filmmakers digitally added the broom. This wasn't too hard to do. In the arctic tundra, where there are no trees for Snowy Owls to bonk into in flight, they often dangle their legs in flight. So in those scenes, the real owl's legs are already in position to be carrying something.
Tiny owls can easily carry mice, so letters and birthday greetings would be quite easy for them to manage. But according to The Pet Place, although throughout the movie, it appears the owls carry messages and even the broom, they didn’t actually hold the objects. Instead, they were attached to the birds using an invisible harness. When they reached the right point, a trainer pulled a cord, which released the message or object. Also, notice that the broom that was delivered in the movie was really made out of paper.
CAN REAL OWLS BE HAPPY IN CAGE?
The cage Harry often keeps Hedwig in is way too small for any real owl, and the tiny Victorian cage used in the movie would be illegal to keep an owl in in either the U.S. or Great Britain. Great Britain requires all bird cages to be big enough to allow the bird to stretch its wings fully without touching anything. To keep it in anything smaller requires a veterinary certificate. But the owl playing Hedwig is probably used to a fairly small cage when he goes places, the way dogs or cats get used to a small pet carrier or kennel, as long as they don't need to stay in it too long or too often.
ARE REAL OWLS EVER ACTIVE IN THE DAYTIME?
Owls that live in the Arctic, "the land of the midnight sun," obviously have to be able to hunt in bright conditions. Snowy Owls can hunt by day or night. And some other owls are very diurnal: the Northern Hawk-Owl and the more tropical Pygmy-Owls are active in the daytime. Many owls are crepuscular, most active at twilight. And some are active ONLY at night: the tiny Saw-whet Owl and Boreal Owl are good examples.
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My "store" is located in my daughter's spare bedroom, and I have other job.
My love affair with owls started many years ago: I always love and respect these fascinating birds of prey so I started a big collection of owl stuffs. Then I decided to be more involved in owl researches trying to save these beautiful birds and to support organizations that support habitat conservation.
OWLS
Owls are a group of birds of prey. Most are solitary and nocturnal, with some exceptions (e.g. the Burrowing Owl).
They are classified in the order Strigiformes, in which there are over 200 extant species. Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except Antarctica, most of Greenland, and some remote islands. Though owls are typically solitary, the literary collective noun for a group of owls is a parliament.
The living owls are divided into two families: the typical owls, Strigidae, and the barn-owls, Tytonidae.
Owls have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and usually a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disc. Although owls have binocular vision, their large eyes are fixed in their sockets, as with other birds, and they must turn their entire head to change views.
Owls are far-sighted, and are unable to clearly see anything within a few inches of their eyes. Their far vision, particularly in low light, is incredibly good, and they can turn their head 135 degrees in either direction; they can thus look behind their own shoulders. It is not correct, however, that they can turn the head so far as to face completely backwards.
Different species of owls make different sounds; the wide range of calls aids owl species in finding mates or announcing their presence to potential competitors, and ornithologists and birders in locating these birds and recognizing species. The facial disc helps to funnel the sound of prey to their ears. In many species, these are placed asymmetrically, for better directional location (Norberg, 1977).
Most owls are nocturnal, actively hunting for prey only under cover of darkness. Several types of owl, however, are crepuscular, or active during the twilight hours of dawn and dusk; one example is the pygmy owl (Glaucidium). A few owls are also active during the day; examples are the Burrowing Owl (Speotyto cunicularia) and the Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus).
Much of the owl's hunting strategy depends on stealth and surprise. Owls have at least two adaptations that aid them in achieving stealth. First, the dull coloration of an owl's feathers can render them almost invisible under certain conditions. Secondly, the owl's remiges, or flight feathers, have fluffy trailing edges, muffling the owl's wingbeats and allowing its flight to be practically silent. Some fish-eating owls, which have no need of silence, lack this adaptation. Elf owls also lack the feathers for silent flying.
Once prey has been captured, the owl's sharp beak and powerful clawed feet allow it to tear the food to pieces before eating, even though most items are swallowed whole. Scientists studying the diets of owls are helped by their habit of regurgitating the indigestible parts of their prey (bones, scales, fur, etc.) in the form of pellets. These "owl pellets" are often sold by companies to schools to be dissected by students as a lesson in biology and ecology, because they are plentiful and easy to interpret.
Owl eggs are white and almost spherical, and range in number from a few to a dozen, depending on species. Their nests are crudely built and may be in trees, underground burrows, or in barns and caves.
The smallest owl is the Elf Owl (Micrathene whitneyi), at as little as 31 g (1.1 oz) and 13.5 cm (5.3 inches). Some of the pygmy owls are scarcely larger. The largest owls are the two of the eagle owls, the Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) and Blakiston's Fish Owl (Bubo blakistoni), which may reach a size of 76.2 cm (30 in) long, have a wingspan of just over 2 m (6.6 ft), and weigh of nearly 4.5 kg (10 lb).
MYTH, LORE AND POPULAR CULTURE
In many parts of the world, owls have been associated with death and misfortune, likely due to their nocturnal activity and common screeching call. However, owls have also been associated with wisdom and prosperity as a result of frequently being companion animals for goddesses.
Henry David Thoreau summarized one perception of owls, when he wrote in 1854's Walden, "I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and underdeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all [men] have."
In the culture of many Native Americans, (e.g. the Native American Hopi nation), taboos often surround owls and they are often associated with evil or sorcery. Like eagle feathers, the possession of owl feathers as religious objects is regulated by federal law (e.g. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and Title 50 Part 22 Code of Federal Regulations).
The Aztecs and Mayans, along with other natives of Mesoamerica, considered the Owl a symbol of death and destruction. In fact, the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, was often depicted with owls. There is a saying in Spanish that still exists today: cuando el tecolote canta, el indio se muere ( "when the owl cries/sings, the Indian dies" ).
Other Native American Tribes saw the owl as the carrier of the elders' spirits.
In Japanese culture, owls are seen as either negative or positive symbols depending on species. Owls are seen as divine messengers of the gods while Barn or Horned owls are perceived as demonic figures.
In Indian culture, a white owl is considered a companion of the goddess of wealth, and therefore a harbinger of prosperity. The owl has been adapted as an emblem to reflect its implications of wisdom ( Wise old owl ) by a revered military institution in India known as the Defence Service Staff College. In colloquial use, however, it is commonly used to refer to stupidity.
The demoness Lilith is thought to have been associated with (screech) owls as well, by way of the KJV translation of the passage in Isaiah 34:14. Prior to the rise of Islam, owls were considered bad omens and associated with evil spirits in most Middle Eastern pagan traditions. In modern times, although such superstitions are less prevalent, owls are still popularly considered "evil" because of their fierce, horrific appearance.
In Greek mythology, the owl, and specifically the Little Owl, was often associated with the goddess Athena, a bird goddess who became associated with wisdom, the arts, and skills, and as a result, owls also became associated with wisdom. They are the unofficial mascot of the high-IQ society Mensa.
The Romans, in addition to having borrowed the Greek associations of the owl (see Owl of Minerva), also considered owls to be funerary birds, due to their nocturnal activity and often having their nests in inaccessible places. As a result, seeing an owl in the daytime was considered a bad omen. The vampiric strix of Roman mythology was in part based on the owl.
Likewise, in Romanian culture, the mournful call of an owl is thought to predict the death of somebody living in the neighbourhood. Such superstitions caused a minor disturbance when an owl showed up at Romanian President's residence, Cotroceni Palace.
In the Welsh Cycles of the Mabinogion, the Owl is considered cursed - the first owl was Blodeuedd, a woman born of flowers to be the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes. Because she fell in love with another man and plotted to kill Lleu, Lleu's guardian Gwydion turned her into the first owl, saying "You are never to show your face to the light of day, rather you shall fear other birds; they will be hostile to you, and it will be their nature to maul and molest you wherever they find you. You will not lose your name but always be called Blodeuwedd." The addition of the w in her name changed her from a woman of flowers to an owl.
In Finland the owl is paradoxically viewed as both a symbol of wisdom, and as a symbol of imbecility (presumably because of it's "dumb" stare).
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My goal is to help you to learn about, appreciate, help, and have fun with owls.
Remember: buying something from my store helps owls.
Some of the products I carry are from organizations that help owls through education, rehabilitation, and/or research. Sales of these items return profits to these organizations to help them with their work.
Any profits over and above website expenses go to help with owl research.
My goal truly is to help owls, not to make money hand over fist.
Please keep this in mind when your realize you can buy the books I carry at less than retail price from other commercial websites that don't work to help owls.
Proceeds from the sale of books go to Local Owls Rehabilitation Center to help with their owl education efforts.
All other profits are used to fund owl research.
Want an owl for a pet?
Many people think it would be fun to have an owl for a pet, especially after watching the Harry Potter movies or reading the books.
How many times do you see Harry wiping up owl poop?
Gutting dead animals?
Do you see Hedwig having a conniption from being in such a small cage?
Do the Weasleys take Errol to the veterinarian?
Remember: that is FANTASY, not real life.
It is illegal to keep owls without a special permit in most countries.
Some countries issue permits to individuals to keep owls after necessary training has been received and proper facilities have been constructed.
TOP 10 REASONS YOU DON'T WANT AN OWL FOR A PET
It's not very easy to take a vacation...after all, you can't just take an owl with you!
And if you leave the owl at home, who's going to feed it and take care of it? If it's strongly attached to you (which most human-imprinted owls will be), your absence will be hard on the bird, and it will let you know it when you return.
Owls don't like change, so don't expect that you can just give your owl to someone else if you don't like it--that would be VERY hard on the owl.
Owls can be really hard on knick-knacks and woodwork. They have a natural instinct to "kill" things and then tear them up.
This leads to shredded and broken knick-knacks, torn-up towels and socks, unstuffed stuffed animals, and just about anything else you can think of (and many things you wouldn't have ever thought of!).
Anything wooden that an owl perches on will have its finish removed bit by bit over the years just from the normal gentle pressure of the talons. This does nothing to increase the value of your home!
Mating season involves a lot of all-night racket! Are you willing to put up with the all-night hooting or tooting of an owl during mating season? If it's a human-imprinted owl, all that noise will likely be directed at YOU.
Owls don't like to be petted and cuddled.
You have to do things on their terms, and traditional "petting" doesn't fit into the owl scheme of things.
If you want an animal you can pet and cuddle, get a cat or a dog.
Owls do like to play, but their play can be rough. Remember, a human-imprinted owl is going to consider you one of its own kind, and will look to you for all its companionship needs, including play.
Try playing with something that has eight sharp talons and a sharp beak and you have a recipe for a lot of cuts, bruises and scratches, even though they are unintentional on the owl's part.
Poop, poop, and more poop!
Owls can't be litter trained, so they just poop wherever they happen to be.
Even if you have a large amount of your house covered with floor protectors, there is still a heck of a lot of cleaning to be done on a very regular basis.
Even if you clean it up every day you're still likely to step in some poop in the middle of the night when you get up to go to the bathroom.
Then there's ceca: owls have two dead-end sacs at the end of their intestines called ceca. They empty these sacs once per day, and it comes out as a hideously smelly, brown, tarry poop that stains terribly.
Feathers and pellets show up in the darndest places.
Owls molt nearly all of their feathers every year. That's thousands of feathers. If you think you can keep them all cleaned up, you're dreaming!
Owls throw up their pellet of fur and bones once each day, wherever they happen to be. They smell and are covered with mucous when they first come out. Some pellets have very little fur and basically come out as an unformed pile of bones.
Try keeping those cleaned up!
Food!
First of all, you need a steady stream of whole, adult animals to feed an owl.
Where will you get them?
How expensive will they be?
Then you have to commit part of your freezer (or a whole freezer) to storage of these dead animals.
Then you get to thaw one out every night the rest of your life (or for as long as you have an owl.)
For many owls you have to cut them open and remove the stomach, intestines, and liver. If you don't you'll find yourself peeling intestines and liver off the floor and walls of your home.
Then there are the leftovers: owls have an instinct to cache, or hide, their leftover food. Sometimes it's difficult to find the caches and you have to wait a few days until it starts stinking to find it.
You can't just put an owl in an outdoor pen and ignore it most of the time.
Many captive owls are imprinted on humans ( think they are humans ), so they will want ( and demand ) human attention.
If they don't get it, they may sit out there and do begging calls until they get the attention they are after.
They also need to be flown regularly for exercise ( if they aren't permanently injured ).
This takes time and training.
You need to know a lot about owls before you get one.
You need to know things like what types of perching surfaces they need to avoid chances of foot infections, which foods to avoid feeding them, how to tell when they are sick ( plus you need a veterinarian who knows how to care for owls ), what type of regular maintenance needs to be done on talons and beaks, and a million other things.
There is a lot to know since you're 100% responsible for every need of a captive owl.
You need to be committed ( in more ways than one! ) to honestly consider yourself willing and capable of taking on such an enormous responsibility.
After all, the smaller owls can easily live over 10 years, and the larger owls can make it to 50 years or more!
A much more appropriate pet owl!
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What can YOU do to help owls?
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To learn much more, read 101 Ways to Help Birds by Laura Erickson
Don't waste paper. Recycle paper when you're done with it, and buy recycled paper. When forests are cut to make paper, it hurts the birds that require older forest growth.
Another way you can save paper is to stop getting junk mail, which most of us want to do anyway! This website has information about simple things you can do to get less junk mail.
Keep your cat indoors.
House cats occasionally kill or injure small owls, but the bigger problem is that they kill a lot of owl food (mice.) This makes it harder for owls, especially smaller species, to survive where there are a lot of cats. Keep in mind that it's healthier for your cat to stay indoors for a number of reasons, but one of those reasons is that Great Horned Owls are known to eat cats! For more information, go to Cats Indoors!
Don't let your dog chase birds. When an owl kills a large prey animal, it sometimes spends several minutes on the ground eating. During this time, it can easily be killed or badly injured by a dog. Young owls just learning to fly are especially vulnerable to dogs.
Support an owl rehabilitation/research/education center near you. Go to our LINKS page for a list of some organizations that help owls. Some of these facilities give you the option of "adopting" an owl. Your adoption fee goes to help an individual owl, and in return you get a certificate and the satisfaction of knowing you helped make a difference in the life of an owl. A wonderful gift idea for owl lovers! The Global Owl Project is a worldwide effort to bring together and standardize research on all of the world's owl species. Financial contributions will help make a difference for owls on a global level.
Don't even think about having an owl for a pet. Owls are protected by law, so it's illegal to keep them in captivity in many countries without a license. But at least as important, owls are wild, natural beings requiring a wild, natural life. They simply cannot be happy in a small cage like you see in the Harry Potter movies. Also, owls are not at all easy to care for. They need to eat fresh whole animals, and their droppings are messy and smelly, requiring frequent clean-up. They can also put up quite an all-night racket during mating season.
Consider becoming an owl researcher.
There is so much that isn't known about owls yet, especially owls in tropical regions. For some species, virtually nothing is known even about their basic biology. Science doesn't have all the answers, but we need interested and dedicated individuals to help find the answers!
Don't pick up young owls on the ground unless you know that they are sick, injured, or BOTH parents have been killed. Fledgling owls normally spend a week or more on the ground before they can fly. At this stage they have fully developed wing feathers and short tails, but the rest of their body is still fuzzy. Their parents are usually somewhere nearby taking care of them. If an owl does need help, contact a local wildlife rehabilitator immediately. DON'T FEED IT!
Remove any unused barbed wire on your property. All too often owls get hung up in barbed wire. They either die a lingering death, are killed by another animal, or, if rescued, often need to be euthanized due to the extent of their injuries.
Avoid using poisons and pesticides. These in effect wind up poisoning your local owl food supply. Some owls eat mice, some eat rats, some eat insects... and dying animals will always be easier to catch than healthy prey. Even if you don't poison these species directly, pesticides are still likely to work their way into the food chain.
Leave dead trees standing when they aren't dangerous. Dead trees make wonderful nesting and roosting sites for many species of owls (as well as other critters.)
Put up owl nest boxes (or make artificial burrows) if you're in the right location. The type of nesting structure and location are very important choices to make.
Habitat, habitat, habitat! If you own land, consider the needs of the owls who might be living there. Consider a permanent conservation easement to protect the land after you're gone. If you don't own land, support organizations that support habitat conservation.
Don't throw your garbage, including food, into ditches. This garbage attracts all kinds of little rodents, which in turn attract things that eat little rodents--like owls. Owls are often hit by cars when they hunt along roadways, killing or injuring them. An unbelievable number of Great Gray Owls were killed along roadways during the winter of 2004-2005 because they were hunting along roads.
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Based in the UK, the trust's primary aim is to ensure the survival of all species of the world's owls.
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The Barn Owl Trust is a national registered charity based in Devon, UK dedicated to conserving barn owls and their environment.
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Everything to do with owls.
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The Global Owl Project (GLOW).
This project proposes a multi-year, worldwide project to resolve foundational aspects of taxonomy and conservation for the owls.
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Merci, c'est bcp plus facile à lire comme ça ; j'attrape mon dico et je m'y mets (hihi !).
Je viens de penser que l'année dernière je vivais à Dijon, la ville de la chouette ; tu conais ? Je vais chercher les photos...
Merci beaucoup de ton invitation, il me fait grand plaisir de faire partie de tes amis virtuels, surtout qu'il semble que nous ayons une passion commune, bienvenue sur ma page quand tu veux. Bizhouuuu !!!
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