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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.
For more detailed help, see the OwlPages Rescue page.
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It doesn't happen all that often or with many species. Burrow owls live communally, so they're a bit of a special case. LEOs don't do it all the time or in every place. That photo I shared is from a very specific time and place. I don't believe there is any exact understanding as to why, but there is one specific place in the world where the Long Ears gather during migration and they swarm this one specific town and there are just hundreds of them everywhere, and there are many reports of 100+ in a single tree. Schools close for the week and the kids go out and take an owl census and all kinds of crazy stuff. I plan to do a writeup on it at some point, but my motivation has been poo recently.