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Ural Owl (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by anon6789 to c/superbowl

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Photo by Faruk Kizil

Habichtskauz auch Uralkauz

Das Bild entstand an einer Futterstelle beim Falkner in den Niederlande.

Ural owl (Strix uralensis)

The picture was taken at a feeding place of a falconer in Netherlands.

One of the given translations called this Habich's Owl, so I tried to find out who Habich was. Took me way too long to figure out Habich was not a person, it means goshawk in German. The German wiki entry had a lot of info the US one didn't though.

The species is referred to as Slaguggla, or “attacking owl”, in Swedish, Habichtskauz, or “goshawk-owl”, in German or as the “long-tailed owl” in Russian.

Attempts to re-introduce the owl have been partly successful in the German-Austrian-Czech border region (Bavarian Forest , Bohemian Forest , and Šumava), and most recently in the Vienna Woods.

Austria seems to have a difficult time with the project as people keep shooting them. 🙄

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[–] anon6789 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are definite similarities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not what I see. I see a hand with no arm directly attached to the body my some sort of wrist-elbow-thingy. The feathers are the fingers.

[–] anon6789 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, understood.

Like "jazz hands" but without the arm part getting in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago