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If you find an injured owl:

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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This adorable forehead belongs to a Boreal Owl, also known as Tengmalm's Owl.

Description from All About Birds

In the dark of the night, the small Boreal Owl comes alive in the spruce and fir forests of northern North America and Europe. This bright-eyed, square faced owl sits and waits on a perch for small mammals and birds before gliding down talons first to grab it. From late winter through spring, its quick, hollow hooting sounds across the dark forest as the male calls for a mate. They spend the year in boreal forests, occasionally making their way farther south in years of prey scarcity.

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the insight. I'm not a photographer, so I try hard to weed out fake pics, I'm just interested in sharing real owls.

I get a lot of stories from animal rescues off their Facebook feeds, so I get recommended all these "owl photos" where most are very unlikely to be real, but some like this are plausible, but I try to trace them back to an actual person. This was listed by a million reposts as being by EE Photography, which I couldn't find anywhere.

The pic is simple enough, and isn't showing anything unrealistic, so I figured what the heck. It's a fun pic I think, so this one made the cut.

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I say faked I more specifically mean the depth of field being faked which I would be very surprised if it was

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ooo I gotcha now. I do appreciate the insight though, my photography knowledge is very limited, so even though I don't totally understand, it's more than I knew before!