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CLOSED - Owl of the Year: Qualifying Round 2 - The Newcomers (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by anon6789 to c/superbowl

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Update: Winners of Round 2

Philippine Scops
Milky Eagle
Mottled Wood
Boreal
Dusky Eagle
Indian Scops
Buff Fronted
Black Banded

The votes of Round 1 are in, and these are the owls moving on to the tournament:

Long Eared
Crested
Eurasian Eagle
Great Horned
Barred
Oriental Bay
Barking
Spectacled

Thanks for all your votes. You made some good choices. Tawny is the one I'm saddest to see go, they look so gentle and loveable, but there is always next year and any other time I find a good picture.

It's time to select the final 8! There are a lot of owls we have to seen very much of, possibly a few we've never had featured before. Let me know who you like, and then I can get our bracket set up.

Rules are simple and the same as before: simply upvote which you like.

Vote for one or two, vote for all, vote for none, the choice is yours.

Downvotes do not count.

Ladies and gentlemen, the choices are yours. Let's see those votes! I'll leave this open for a week again.

#superbowl #owloftheyear24

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[–] anon6789 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Philippine Scops Owl

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

A lot of owls have these little horns / "ears" and they're very cute!

[–] anon6789 3 points 1 month ago

They have a wonderful name too - plumicorns - from the Latin pluma/feather and corn/horn.

There's not true consensus one why they're there, but the leading thoughts are communication (I agree with this one) and to help with camouflage (I feel skeptical on this one). They can move them around, so there's muscle control for some reason. Many owls will elongate to look more like tree branches, but I've done a post that I can't find now comparing owls with and without horns, and the horns are typically so small I can't see how they'd make the relatively large body blend in much better.

[–] anon6789 21 points 1 month ago

Boreal Owl

[–] anon6789 21 points 1 month ago

Mottled Wood Owl

[–] anon6789 21 points 1 month ago

Milky Eagle Owl

[–] anon6789 20 points 1 month ago

Dusky Eagle Owl

[–] anon6789 20 points 1 month ago

Indian Scops Owl

[–] anon6789 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Buff Fronted Owl

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

Another owl with a make-up face (^_^)

[–] anon6789 4 points 1 month ago

I also really like its patch of "hair" on its head!

[–] anon6789 19 points 1 month ago

Black Banded Owl

[–] anon6789 18 points 1 month ago

Brown Hawk Owl

[–] anon6789 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Marsh Owl

[–] dragonfly 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like my cat when she's angy. 🤣

[–] anon6789 4 points 1 month ago

Cat tax! Cat tax! 😸

[–] homesweethomeMrL 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aw yeah, that’s a real working person’s owl right there.

You know he’s got a 35-year old pickup truck next to the garage he’s kept running for decades despite the inside being full of receipts and wrappers and an ashtray full of change.

[–] anon6789 3 points 1 month ago

It doesn't have time for the beauty regime of the Shortie. It's got real work to do!

[–] anon6789 16 points 1 month ago

Spotted Owlet

[–] anon6789 15 points 1 month ago

Eurasian Scops

[–] anon6789 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pel's Fishing Owl

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

This face XD

[–] anon6789 5 points 1 month ago

It's happy and angry at the same time! 😆

[–] anon6789 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I forgot to ask if the hash tags federated properly this time.

I had first done "#superbowl #owloftheyear" as you had suggested last time, but it seemed to just make the font larger for the "superbowl" part while putting the hash on the OOTY part, so I just put in a spare hash "# #superbowl #owloftheyear" to make it show up in a way that looked correct.

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

Well hashtag written from Lemmy don't work perfectly well as of today. But you did everything you can and I've been boosting your superbowl post with my Sharkey account. Let's now just hope that owl lovers will find it because I don't have a big plateform.