A special Sunday event, a photographic essay celebrating a few of these magnificent raptors. Not Falcons (nor Patriots), these superb owls hail from Europe, Asia, North and South America, captured in photos both recent and more than a century old. If you have some time today before the big game (or are skipping the event entirely) I invite you to have a look.
Superb Owl Sunday
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A man stops to pose for photographs on his motorcycle, carrying his pet owl and dog, as he arrives at an area where Brazilian Socialist Party presidential candidate, Marina Silva, will campaign in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, on August 30, 2014. #
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"Hoot Hoot I Scream", an owl-shaped ice cream stand in Los Angeles, California, circa 1930. Apparently the owl's head rotated and its eyes lit up, backed by headlights from a Buick. #
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A Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) reacts after being fed at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) center in Amritsar, India, on November 16, 2012. The owl which is rarely seen in this region became entangled in the string of a kite string and was rescued by SPCA members. #
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Red Bull driver Mark Webber, of Australia, steers his car past an owl during the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix at the Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 27, 2011. #
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Passers-by take a selfie with owl "Wasabi" perching on the arm of Chihiro Kawamoto, an owl cafe employee, on a street at Harajuku shopping district in Tokyo, on March 6, 2016. #
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Boulder County Sheriff’s Deputy Sophie Berman crouches over a small owl, for a brief encounter before the bird flew away, near Rainbow Lakes, outside Nederland, Colorado, on July 21, 2015. #
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A burrowing owl rests on the ninth hole of the Olympic golf course near its nest in a sand bunker during a practice round for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 5, 2016. #
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Visitors look at a larger-than-life photograph of a snowy owl, part of an exhibition at the Summer Garden, in St. Petersburg on May 23, 2013. The annual street photo-exhibition, which consists of 60 photos displaying animals and birds listed in the Red Book of Russia, was organized to match the International Day for Biological Diversity introduced by the United Nations General Assembly. #
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An owl named "Distinto" flies to her trainer inside a park as part of the birds exercise routine outside a cage at the former Buenos Aires Zoo, Argentina, on July 1, 2016. #
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An owl flies over the stadium during the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier football match between Honduras and Trinidad & Tobago, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on November 15, 2016. #
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