A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating these magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America, and are captured here in photos taken 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 take a look; it was a real hoot putting this together.
Superb Owl Sunday III
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The druid Malachy, played by Ciaron Davies, interacts with Cracker, a European eagle owl, as a reenactment of Saint Patrick's first landing in Ireland takes place at Inch Abbey on March 11, 2018, in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. #
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A young long-eared owl is seen in a house after it fell from its nest and was rescued by Alper Tuydes in Bursa, Turkey, on January 14, 2019. In the background is an injured flamingo standing on the balcony. Tuydes took both birds to a veterinarian for treatment and adopted the owl. #
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Mykh, a two-year-old great gray owl, sits on the head of the ornithologist Daria Koshcheyeva during a training session in the Siberian taiga forest in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on January 30, 2019. #
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A snowy owl flies away after being released along the shore of Duxbury Beach in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on December 14, 2017. The owl was one of 14 trapped that winter at Boston's Logan International Airport and moved to the beach on Cape Cod Bay. #
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