Finally got to make a return visit to the first owl rehab I visited. The Raptor Trust is a nice medical and rehab facility in northern NJ.
It’s a great facility to look around, but picture taking is absolutely terrible. They have very fine netting on all the enclosures. Most of my pics look like this, no matter how hard I tried.
I’ll share a few I got where you can actually see the birds. The post picture is of the most beautiful Barred Owl they had, Sonny.
I’ve read the leucism develops when the nerves and sense organ are developing as well, so they typically have bad eyesight and other nerve problems, so they typically do not fare well.
You’re here pretty often, so you probably saw the big post about the leucistic GHO I shared a while back, but if not, I can find you a link.