Handle With Care
Handle With Care
From Iowa Raptor Project
Tonight we banded our 21st Northern Saw-whet Owl of the season, one month to the day after we banded our first. Here it is held by IRP Raptor Research intern Aaron Petrie with volunteer Ben Conrads looking on.
Many people are surprised by the number of owls we're encountering with such limited effort that we've invested. We are finding the lowa River valley at the Macbride Nature Recreation Area to be quite productive. We're most interested this year in discovering how long their fall migration season lasts. Looks like we will be back out for more cold nights ahead!
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-the owl
They have one of the best sourpuss faces of any owl if you ask me.
He mad
Very angy
I always like reading about how some of these little guys are from remote parts up in the Canadian wilderness, and this might be their first encounter with a human ever.
That's got to be so strange for them. Just minding their own business, being bonked off an invisible net, and next thing they know a giant hand grabs hold of them!
Then they leave after getting weighed and measured with a new ankle bracelet wonder wtf just happened.