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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Eric 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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A 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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Boreal 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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