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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.

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From Bryce Gaudian

I discovered there are A LOT of Great Horned Owls in the Salton Sea area of the Mohave Desert of southern California! I was able to spot and photograph 10 different Great Horned Owls in one day.

Interesting account on the top one in an abandoned barn in rural Westmorland, CA. So my friend was driving and was on the lookout for Burrowing Owls which were literally EVERYWHERE. We were driving by an abandoned barn about 100 feet off the road and said out loud, "Wouldn't it be something if there was an owl in there!"

As we are driving by it must be my brain being in owl facial recognition mode cuz through a broken out window, from the road, while we are driving by, think I see an owl up on one of the rafters.

We pull over and get out and cross a deep drainage ditch and approach the barn and low and behold, there are two Great Horned Owls inside.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 4 months ago

I would watch that!