From Corrie Barnard
Rietvlei Nature Reserve, South Africa
Africa has some great owls. 🥰
I agree 100%!
With Africa’s huge size and vertical orientation, there are so many different climates and exosystem types that it can host such a variety of owl. There are around 40-50 species, some are still be debated if they’re seperate, some are only found on single small islands, etc.
Many are pretty rare or at least hard to get access to where they live, so a lot aren’t on most people’s radar as much as they deserve to be.
A list of all the known African owls is here if you wish to see some of the ones we haven’t covered yet or to remind yourself of any you may have forgotten since I give you so many to keep track of!
The Milky is a cool owl. I used to think it was a tad uggo, but I’ve since embraced its uniqueness.
The pink eyelids supposedly act as little radiators to cool off a bit.
I’ll see if I can find something to post about them soon.
Is this the same owl we talked about matching eyeshadow and nail polish?
I thought it was!
Thanks for the link. I like that it has range maps.
That is always a huge help. Their page is very web 1.0, but I think that’s perfectly fine for this type of context.
Beautiful! Very ethereal.
