Today’s post is from the Owl Research Institute.
Did you know you can tell the sex of an adult Long- eared Owl by color?
Though it may be subtle to the untrained eye, Long- eared Owls display sexual color dimorphism in their plumage. The Owl Research Institute tested this using a soil color chart to score the facial disk, tarsometatarsus, and underwing coverts of adult Long- eared Owls. Overall, females were found to be darker in color than males.
Photos 3-6 show adult male and female Long-eared Owls side-by-side. Can you guess which are which? Comment your guesses below!
Read more about sexual color dimorphism in Long- eared Owls in ORI’s 2016 publication titled ‘Sex Differences in Long-eared Owi Plumage Coloration’.
(I couldn’t wait - that’s why I said ‘can’t wait’)
Thanks for saving me the work!
I was going to have Male and Female as the key and try to leave Peter’s outfit, but you did a great job!
It’s not showing up in my app (Summit) so I’m just going to repost it here for anyone else with the save problem. It showed up on the web version just fine.
This post I can’t get to show up on any of my apps or the web. I’m not sure what’s been up between lemm.ee and .world lately…
Weird, tho the pics are just embedded previews (eg https://removed/pRRLsnM/20240113-203239.jpg), not hosted on lemm.ee … but I have had problems with previews from lemmy.world not showing up in Discord not that long ago (it lasted for days, it’s fine now).
But then again (for me) it works as intended in Eternity, Voyager, and Jerboa.
Perhaps I should unload images elsewhere.
This one is on lemm.ee:
Not 100% sure but I think .world removes images hosted on imgbb
Looks that is the case.
When Wold was fixing their image server, I think I remember trying to use imgbb as I had before, but it was doing the same thing and I ended up using catbox.
I know I used to be able to use imgbb, do you know what changed?