That’s my initial thought. The leukistic owls, where they end up all white, also do very poorly and are usually blind to some extent. It usually seems there is more than just the generic switch for color that gets flipped the wrong way.

On the Austrian side, the action was temporarily suspended due to the illegal shooting of released owls and ongoing protests by hunters who feared a negative impact on small game hunting. A specific animal protection project of the Association for Landscape Conservation & Species Protection in Bavaria eV, founded in 2015, was the reintroduction of the Ural owl in the Steinwald Nature Park in Upper Palatinate.

German Wiki

I’d argue the restoration of natural populations of native animals is more important than sports entertainment. The killing of the owls sounds to mainly be a protest of sorts.

Flip halfway through to ensure even browning.

This photo was taken toward the end of the procedure, while the owl was still anesthetized (the orange tube is a monitor that goes down the esophagus and the clear tube is delivering oxygen and anesthetic gas into the owl’s trachea). The silver bar is an external fixator that holds all of the surgical pins in alignment, and padding is added around the bar and pins to keep the area protected. All of the metal pieces that hold the fractured bone in place are very lightweight - the total weight added is not even half the weight of one of this owl’s mouse meals!

Dr. Avery pins the owl’s fractured humerus while Wildlife Rehabilitation Manager Stephanie monitors the patient’s breathing, heart rate, temperature, and other vital signs. During this procedure, Stephanie was also manually administering breaths to the owl every ten seconds using the inflatable green bag in her left hand.

American Barn Owl 24-750’s initial x-ray, showing the angled, or oblique, fracture of the left humerus.

I do a lot of the posting, but you guys share your comments, and that’s just as important. I just like to read and research and teach.

Danelle does seem to have been quite a catch! Her and Brendan know to have quite a magical life. I think they may even live in a treehouse, judging from one clip I found. Here she is talking a little and releasing an Eagle Owl.

I’m glad you are enjoying all the “exotic wildlife” here. If I were Brendan, I’d definitely be sending her to do the press and soliciting the donations… She makes a great face for the organization! Then again, all rehabbers and vets are beautiful to me! 🥰

Here’s a little blurb from their site about them:

Realising that there was a rapid decline in owl numbers and that owls had become one of the most common wildlife casualties brought into veterinary practices, Brendan Murray and his wife, Danelle, decided fifteen years ago, to focus all their efforts on conserving them. The organisation they founded, Owl Rescue Centre, is based at Hartbeesp0ort in the North West Province, and now takes in approximately two- thousand owls every year through their rescue efforts. The owls are rehabilitated and when they can survive on their own in the wild, are released in the sanctuary- a farm which is located within a 12,000-hectare conservancy.

Owl Rescue Centre is a registered Non-profit company and permitted rehabilitation facility concerned with the well-being of all owl species and wildlife in Southern Africa.

Owl Rescue Centre is dedicated to protect owls, rescue owls that are in danger and rehabilitate and care for owls that have been injured, are sick, poisoned or orphaned and then release them back into their natural environment using specifically researched release methods. We are also involved in several conservation projects to decrease the high mortality rate of owl species.

I’m too old and/or American to know who he is, but now you’ve had me sitting here for over 5 minutes looking back and forth at pictures to see if I could rule it out, but there are enough similarities that you could make me believe it is. 😵‍💫

I would love a few people with even half her spirit in the judicial branch…

I’d either try the Red Owl:

And this place looks small, but seems to promise to have more owls than the store in the original post:

Just remembered this:

Bojack: Dibs

Mission accomplished, little hootie! 🥲🥰

They are! 🥰

And from the username, it sounds like you are a serious animal lover yourself. 🦈

I’m glad someone is proofreading me 😁

Thank you for sharing all this! This has been one of the most interesting posts I’ve come across in a long time.

They do make it look really fun!

The fundraising is probably the part I would enjoy the least. I think I’d rather be on poo cleanup.

I’m glad you liked all the pictures. That Martial Eagle especially is a heck of a creature I’ll have to learn more about.

Easy with the tongue, Kaa!

I sometimes debate sharing other photos than the owls, but after seeing this behemoth, I knew that this must be shared!

Was something I said non-factual??? 😅

It has been adjusted!

The only correct answer is: not enough!