A special Sunday event, a photographic essay celebrating a few of these magnificent raptors. Not Eagles (nor Patriots), these superb owls hail from Europe, Asia, North and South America, captured in photos over the past few years. 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 II
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Read moreA burrowing owl extends a wing. #
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Read moreA snowy owl makes a turn in flight on a winter evening. #
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Read moreA bright-eyed eagle owl at sunset in a forest. #
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Read moreAn Eurasian Eagle Owl at a shopping festival in Kuwait city on February 10, 2017. #
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Read moreA great grey owl perched in snowy woods. #
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Read moreA small owl stands on a stripe on blacktop. #
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Read moreEric McGill, of the bird education and conservation company Earthwings, kisses his eagle-owl "Pumpkin" as he meets with festival goers on Main Street during day five of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2018, in Park City, Utah. #
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Read morePortrait of a white-faced owl. #
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Read moreA perched pygmy owl. #
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Read morePortrait of a snowy owl in a wintry landscape. #
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Read moreA well-camouflaged eastern screech owl. #
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Read moreA young horned owl. #
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Read moreAn owl photographed during sunset. #
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Read moreA desert owl flies towards its catch. #
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Read morePortrait of a long-eared owl. #
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Read moreA female Long-eared owl is silhouetted by a supermoon as she sits in a tree in New York's Central Park after being treated and released on January 1, 2018. Two workers for a company that normally treats birds as pests to be eradicated instead became saviors when they rescued the owl that had struck a building in midtown Manhattan. The men took her to the Wild Bird Fund, a New York city wildlife rehabilitation organization, who treated her for a concussion and released her at sunset. #
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Read moreA spotted eagle-owl takes a run. #
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Read moreAn owlet peers down at the photographer. #
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Read moreA barn owl perches on a fence post. #
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Read moreA tawny owl in flight. #
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Read moreAn eagle owl photographed at Leeds Castle in Kent, UK. #
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Read moreBoreal owls at the El Salvador National Zoo in San Salvador on June 15, 2017. The owls are one of more than 50 animal species that are cared for and rehabilitated by the El Salvador zoo, to be returned to their natural habitat. #
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Read moreA white-faced owl perches in a tree. #
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Read moreA pair of owlets. #
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Read moreA snowy owl in flight in Ontario. #
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Read moreA great grey owl peers out from behind a tree trunk. #
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Read moreA small owl in flight. #
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Read moreAnd finally, a snowy owl with a superb reaction. #
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