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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.
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"Where's my turkey?!"
I looked it up, and it seems second to the bobcat, the GHO is the second most common predator of adult turkeys, but they seem to only be able to handle the female turkeys, not the full grown males, and they usually only claim the head. They will snatch them right out of the trees.
GHO are truly top tier predators!
Well of course they kill turkeys, turkeys sleep in the owls' trees.
😂
I missed the joke. Could you explained it to me ?
Turkeys sleep up in the trees, so the owl ate the turkey for stealing his spot to sleep.
Sorry, I forget some if you may not have never seen a turkey! They're so common I forget they're North American only. 🦃
The big one is the male.
Per Wikipedia for Wild Turkey
Per a Wikipedia for GHO
I've saw turkey but they are not the most commun type of poultry. Also in my mind, poultry nest low, like chicken or duck. TIL
I always forget turkey and grouse roost in trees too. I typically see then grazing for food. It's a big surprise when you come upon one in the woods and it scares the hell out of you.
It's funny, I've never actually gotten a good look at one, just been scared by them when one flys away when I walk by. I looked them up, and I've only ever thought of them like in the picture above, but it seems they puff up like this:
I do like the guinea fowl too!
It wasn't much of a joke really, just shoehorning in the fact that turkeys sleep in trees lol. So do peacocks. I found out the latter one when I stayed at this hotel that had resident peacocks, in the morning half the cars had peacock poop on them.