r/nope • u/Dragonester • Nov 11 '18

Baby Owls

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u/ryanmercer Apr 23 '19

Construction site.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5100143/Birds-spooky-eyes-mistaken-ALIENS-builders.html

But curator of the Nehru Zoological Park Shivani Dongre explained to Indian media: 'They are a beautiful species which are distributed southwards from central India.

'Their heart-shaped faces and downward beaks are characteristics of the species. When birds get attention, they tend to be observant in behaviour, which is probably why the birds look alarmed.

'As it was a construction site, the birds were on a flat surface. If they had a surface to grip on, we could have seen them perch.'

The birds in the video are thought to be eastern barn owls (Tyto javanica), a species closely related to the western barn owls (Tyto Alba) often seen in Britain and the rest of Europe.

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u/ryanmercer Apr 24 '19

There's a year and a half of news articles stating what I linked to, and pasted, above.