Bogart from Arkans-owl
Bogart from Arkans-owl
Bogart is at Raptor Rehab.
Born blind, he was booted from the nest, but his vision eventually developed, but not before imprinting with people. He is now a very talkative ambassador for the rehab's education program.
Wow, I didn't realise vision can develop later on. Good for him :)
That did sound unusual so I looked it up.
Altricial vs Precocial
Owls are altricial, so they are blind at birth and vision develops around a week. So this guy was probably lagging behind his nest mates and got shoved out by the others or the parents for being the runt.
Cool, I guess it saves time on egg development because they won't need vision much in the nest stage.