I thought it was Central Park, though I could be wrong. I didn't have a digital camera until recently, so most of my icons were made by jackshoegazer of the iconomicon (my honey). He often does nature or science icons at my request. I beleive the image is from Getty Images.
No, actually, we do very little direct handling of the birds--they don't like it. The program raptors are conditioned to step up onto a gloved hand, for when they do educational stuff. The exhibit birds are only handled when they need to have vet stuff done, and we have to use leather gloves and towels and such.
I always imagined they were big. Whenever I hear screech owls being mentioned I think of the scene from the film Milo and Otis (fascinated by the film as a kid) where a great owl offers the scared cat Milo his nest for the night, where he'll be protected by screech owls. Ergo it made sense to me that screech owls were bigger and far scarier than great owls. Silly Hollywood.
He does look like a little Archimedes. A silly question perhaps, I thought I read somewhere that one of the dangers in handling birds especially was the danger of their fear leading to a heart attack. Is this just an urbpan sorta legend?
Not that I'm going to be handling birds anytime soon. I'm much more of a birdwatching enthusiast and I luckily live near a pond in the US midwest so a nice variety comes by to visit.
Wild birds suffer a great deal of stress from handling. This individual is very sedate, in general, and has been in captivity for 10 years, so has been habituated to contact with humans.
I'm not sure about heart attacks (why not?, I suppose) but apparently bird rehabbers have to be very careful about the animals going into shock.
I've heard of several instances where a dolphin in captivity has a baby, and when the vets go in the tank to check the calf, it dies right when they go to touch it. I cannot imagine what the mother dolphin does at that point...an explosion of ten different emotions at once, probably.
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Keen Screech Owl! Eagle Owls, Snowy Owls and Tawny Frogmouths remain my favourites...
btw- Re PROHECY. The email I sent you bounced. Could you email me at wirrrn@yahoo.com for my snail mail addy?!
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Screw entertainment or poetry or comic blogs. This whole urban pantheist project is cooler.
The more BLOGS dedicated to things that AREN'T all human, the better.
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But I kinda think that he or she looks a bit like a dinner roll, one of the rustic ones with nuts and seeds.
But the cuteness overwhelms!
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Your icon looks like the park near my house! Where is it actually?
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OMG OMG OMG
i want to scritch thems ;)
btw, how DO you handle the birds?
me? i'd bite that turkey vulture back
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No, actually, we do very little direct handling of the birds--they don't like it. The program raptors are conditioned to step up onto a gloved hand, for when they do educational stuff. The exhibit birds are only handled when they need to have vet stuff done, and we have to use leather gloves and towels and such.
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Old Geezer Indeed
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Not that I'm going to be handling birds anytime soon. I'm much more of a birdwatching enthusiast and I luckily live near a pond in the US midwest so a nice variety comes by to visit.
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I'm not sure about heart attacks (why not?, I suppose) but apparently bird rehabbers have to be very careful about the animals going into shock.
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