Photos by Shankar S

In honor of our little buddy WFS winning the big tournament, I thought this guy might make a nice transition back to my normal postings.

Giant Scops is the largest of the Scops (genus Otus) owls. He comes in at a monstrous 12 inches / 30 cm. White Faced Scops is 9.5 inches / 24 cm.

The Giant Scops is only found on 3 islands in the Philippines, one of which essentially has no trees left, and the other 2 are leased to logging companies. 😒

    • anon6789OP
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      71 year ago

      Yay! I was worried we dropped back down to no comments already!

      They don’t look like it in these pics but they do have the big round owl eyes too.

      • @TheDoctorDonna
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        51 year ago

        I try to engage on work/study breaks lol.

        What a gorgeous, big eyed beauty. And to think I almost ignored this sub cause I thought it was going to be sports 😂

        • anon6789OP
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          61 year ago

          I had kinda hoped when this group started here it would have a different name, but the Reddit sub does have almost half a million subscribers, so most people are probably coming from there, so this is familiar with them.

          There is also a FoxNews on Lemmy somewhere that is nothing but fox pictures. Also one of the Conservative ones got taken over by a conservationist. Those were both entertaining to find.

          I like when people check in, even if it’s just an emoji or “nice owl” or whatever. It let’s me know you’re there, plus I like both seeing the same names coming back and new ones showing up for the first time. It gives me an idea too if I should keep posting new info and pics or rehash some old stuff to get new people caught up.

          • @TheDoctorDonna
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            71 year ago

            You are a very engaged mod! Respect. Very few communities have that luxury.

            • anon6789OP
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              71 year ago

              Not a mod, just someone being the change they wanted to see in the group. 😉

              • @TheDoctorDonna
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                41 year ago

                Oh jeez, I just assumed cause you are very dedicated lol

                • anon6789OP
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                  51 year ago

                  Nah, I leave that being responsible stuff to other people, I’m just here to have fun!