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US Wild Animal Rescue Database: Animal Help Now
International Wildlife Rescues: RescueShelter.com
Australia Rescue Help: WIRES
Germany-Austria-Switzerland-Italy Wild Bird Rescue: wildvogelhilfe.org
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.
For more detailed help, see the OwlPages Rescue page.
Community Rules:
Posts must be about owls. Especially appreciated are photographs (not AI) and scientific content, but artwork, articles, news stories, personal experiences and more are welcome too.
Be kind. If a post or comment bothers you, or strikes you as offensive in any way, please report it and moderators will take appropriate action.
AI is discouraged. If you feel strongly that the community would benefit from a post that involves AI you may submit it, but it might be removed if the moderators feel that it is low-effort or irrelevant.
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My wife's work computer desktop background changed itself today, and she called me in to see it. I said, "that's a Saw Whet." Not believing me, she looked up the credits and said, "get out! It is!"
I owe it all to !superbowl. I couldn't have identified even a Snowy before this community.
Thanks, anon6789.
My wife said I should provide the attribution; to MS's credit (and rarely do I give MS credit for anything) they made finding the background attribution easy.
However, I didn't only because I wasn't so much submitting the photo itself, but the photo of the desktop as illustration about the story. I could have posted my story without the photo and it would still have communicated what I wanted. I suppose the distinction is in what the topic of the post was - the photo, or the story? For me, it was the story.
If I'd been submitting the photo for the photo's sake, I'd have included the attribution. I probably should have, anyway.
Thanks for linking to the original, so folks can see it in all its glory, and see who the artist is.