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US Wild Animal Rescue Database: Animal Help Now
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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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From Misty O'Neil Epstein
I love to capture something I have never seen before, an owl with a caterpillar!! Wow!! I was so surprised to see her fly in with one.
She held it in her mouth for a few minutes. I thought she was going to offer it to one of her nearby kids, but instead she ate her snack.
Wonder how it tastes to them!
I always feel a little bad because I can't imagine they'd get all that much pleasure from eating other than it means they won't go hungry. Our sense of taste is tied to smell so much, but owls have notoriously bad noses, hence the skunk eating, and birds have at best around 5% of the taste buds we have, not sure where owls fall on that scale. It's claimed they have real basic senses of sweet, bitter, and sour, but other than identifying food vs not food, I'm not sure how much info they get from having something in their mouth. They don't even really chew a lot of stuff, and a lot will get swallowed whole, so they'd only really get fur/feather flavor, which is probably mostly dirt....yick.
That's why I always hope their sleep is extra good, since in another cat-like way, they seem to mainly be sleeping or eating. I feel this is a downer answer, but it just may be my perspective. 😐
Aw I didn't even think of that
These are the types of things that happen when a person spends entirely too much time thinking or talking about owls. 🤪
Haha true. I do have you tagged as "superb owl guy" when I learned how to add tags on voyager so that tracks lol
It's-a-me! Owlio!
Yes!