Night owls

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Brown Wood Owl, Toni’s Zoo, Rothenburg, Switzerland
Photo by Emmanuel Keller (Tambako the Jaguar at Flickr)

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Eurasian eagle owl Amber
GIF at Amber’s owner’s Vine

3.

Barn owl defending her chicks, Zoo d'Amnéville, Amnéville, France
Photo by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen

4.

Burrowing owl, Bertioga, Brazil
Photo by Leonardo Casadei

5.

Long-eared owl, Big Sioux Recreation Area, Brandon, South Dakota, USA
Photo by Terry Sohl

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Eastern screech owls Buckbeak (male, intermediate phase), Pygwidgeon (male, red phase), and Nymphadora (female, gray phase), Caitlin Dunbar Nature Center, Maryland, USA
Caitlin Dunbar Nature Center’s Facebook

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Striped owl, Paraguaçu, Brazil
Photo by Eduardo G. Banderas
(Banderas found the owl by the side of the road with a broken wing and stopped to help.)

8.

Ferruginous pygmy owl chicks, waiting to be returned to their nest cavity after being banded and weighed as part of a research project
Photo by Paul Bannick

9.

Saw-whet owl, Mountsberg Raptor Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Photo by George Nagy

10.

Indian eagle owl, Suffolk Owl Sanctuary, Stonham Aspal, England
Photo by Nicola Matthews

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