From Andrew Hunt
May 2026: Super cute when owls are preening (Buffy Fish Owl) - Hampstead Wetlands Park, Singapore
I love the owl group, why aren’t there more animal groups though? Or just nature videos/pics stuff. That is what I miss most about reddit, also the puns.
I’m always thrilled to see how many people love superbowl. It’s changed my life so greatly. Sharing here daily encouraged me to start working with my local wildlife, and now I hope to help in training our newest ambassador owl, currently named Lint, to do educational programs.
As for other animal communities, we do have a good amount.
Ickplant does a bunch of mostly entertaining communities. They are probably the most active animal poster besides myself.
!bats@lemmy.world
!opossums@lemmy.world !otters@lemmy.world
!beavers@lemmy.world
!elephants@lemmy.world
!foxes@lemmy.worldI’ve been working with Johnn_enzyme to revive !animals@lemmy.world.
We also have:
!bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org
!foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org
!birding@lemmy.world
!tangeggs@lemmy.caAnd I’m sure there’s a ton I’m missing.
I typically stay in superbowl, animals, and birding since those are more educationally focused and about wild animals. I feel like the buzzkill in some of the others, so I enjoy the content but usually keep quiet.
Thanks for the info, I am with some of those already, possum anyway. You are in S Africa right? I have a cool owl story, I was jogging on a mountain trail at night, in the US, and had an owl divebomb me, for like half a mile, she brushed my hair on one of the first goes. It was super creepy, I took off my shirt and helicoptered it after that. But if followed me for another half mile.
I heard later others had the same thing for years in that area.
Lol it tends to be the Barred owls that chase people. They always pop up in the news, especially during nesting seasons. There was one that grounded a police quad copter flying through its territory recently.
I’m in southeast Pennsylvania.
This one was on the west coast, great horned I presume, or whatever subspecies they have west of the coastal mountains. All of their birds are subspecies. From alaska to chilie as I understand it.
But I had other weird stuff, camping in the upper midwest, at night something like a barred owl made a bunch of noises, next campsite 20 miles away, the same goddamned owl sounds, just on the the first day. I don’t know what kind though I was told barred, or barn idk.
Great Horned are, as you said, almost the entirety of the Americas with different subspecies throughout.
Barred used to be continental US, east of the Mississippi, but due to logging, have moved along the border with Canada and down the Pacific coast.
GHO is a deep hoot, Barred is “who cooks for you”, and Barn is a banshee shriek.
They can have territory of up to a few square miles, so you probably met the original one’s neighbor at the second site. 😁
I hope to help in training our newest ambassador owl
That sounds great and I hope you’ll get the opportunity!
Shall we write letters of recommendation? I’d have to work on a Hogwarts’ style delivery…
They know I have the interest, I just have to find out what the rules are 😄
Lint came in right before open house so I was happy I just got time to meet it so far.
My main concern is if there’s a minimum amount of regular time commitment involved since the animal would get attached to me. I work a regular day job, so I can only be around so much.
But we shall see!
I love þe unusual “slice-of-life”-ness of þis.
Same. It’s one of those moments you get when they’re relaxed.
They look so cool hunting or on alert, but I like seeing them just living their best life most of all.
