Ugh! Not sure what is going on, but having tons of issues uploading any of my trip photos. Tried multiple times to put up my photos with the owl I met, and a few other owl pics from my trip, but they’re all triggering Cloudflare’s blocking. Also seem to be having some other minor Lemmy issues, but not sure what all is going on. 😵💫
This one worked! I can see the photo of the great toupee owl
Ones not from my camera seem to work, but any of the owl stuff I shot in my trip is being flagged. I was all excited to share some original content, but now it isn’t letting me for some reason.
That’s so frustrating!! You know we would all love to see some owl OP. I wish I understood the tech behind Lemmy more and had some advice to offer.
I at least wanted to show you guys the Screech Owl we got to hold. It was a real cutie!
I’ll get something figured out. I took so many owl and owl related pics though, so it’s gonna be a minute!
I’m looking forward to seeing your pics. Hopefully it works out soon. Where did you go? Sorry if I missed you saying before.
I don’t think I got into specifics, but we went to Pittsburgh. We were originally supposed to go to Michigan, but that got cancelled. I already scheduled the owl encounter for the way home, so we just extended our trip there.
The National Aviary had Cedar, who was not actually on exhibit, and there was a pair of Eurasian Eagle Owls, one Barred Owl, and I ran into one Burrowing Owl. I was excited for that, since it was my third attempt to see one, but my first success. The Burrow Owl was most NOT excited to see me, so that was a little disappointing, but then I spotted the Nicobar Pigeon I mentioned in my post the other week about Andaman and Nicobar, so that was fun. There was also some Owl-Faced Something songbird I got pics of, and 2 adult and 2 juvi Condors, who were huge, and also a pair of gigantic Sea Eagles.
The Carnegie Institute of Natural History had amazing dinosaur displays I enjoyed as much as the Smithsonian, and they had about a dozen owl specimens of various quality that were nice to give a size comparison between species, and a very beautiful diarama of a GHO vs skunk.
There were a few owl art things I saw, especially in The Zenith restaurant’s owl themed bathroom.
The Pittsburgh Zoo did not have any owls. I was also very sad that they have Pygmy Hippos, but they were not on display. 😞 Hippos are another fav of mine and that would have been a great surprise. They did have a momma gorilla with a tiny baby and the big cats were all very active and playful, which were all fun to watch. They’re normally always napping like regular cats. We also met a retired zookeeper of 42 years who still volunteers there and he gave us a ton of info on the Red Pandas and Komodo Dragons.
I’m sure there’s other stuff owl related in forgetting, plus some other fun stops too, like the Fallingwater house, which is absolutely amazing.
Man I hate cloud flare, it never lets me into sites on librewolf even when I disable RFP and other stuff. Wish I could offer more advice or tips to help
I haven’t heard back from the Lemmy.World support yet. It seems I can upload things not originating from my phone, but not pics I took. It’s a Pixel, so it’s not like it’s some obscure thing. I wanted to just give some photo dumps for you guys, but now it looks like I’ll have to re-save them all to see if I can fix the formatting or whatever is up.
Gotcha. That sucks that you have to re-save them, I hope it’s a quick fix and that the support people get back to you with an answer, cause it’s definitely mind boggling.
This owl is beautiful. It seems to have a crown of feather. Beautiful, that’s the word.
The Brown Fish Owl seems much more dignified than the Buffy Fish Owl for sure!
Brown Fish Owl has a rich, deep voice as well. One of the deepest of any owl. Check it out here!
Honnestly, I don’t know what I’m supposed to heard. There is different sound during the video. Was it singing all along?
I zoomed in to try to see what’s going on and it’s neck still looks puffed out, but I can’t really verify if sound is still coming out. I mainly wanted to show off how low the voice is. I wasn’t able to find the original comment I saw about the last hoot rolls off to the limits of human hearing.
I did find a description of its larger cousin, the Blakiston’s Fish Owl:
I listened under the sound of the wind for the distinctive call of the fish owl. Fish owls hoot at frequencies in the low-200-hertz range, in the same ballpark as a great gray owl and twice as low as a great horned owl. In fact, the frequency is so low that the sound can be difficult to capture well with a microphone.
On the tapes I’d later make, the owls always sounded far away, muffled, lost, even if they were close by. The low frequency of the vocalizations served a purpose: it ensured that sound passed cleanly through dense forest and could be heard some distance away, up to several kilometers. This was especially true in winter and early spring, when there was little tree cover and the crisp air facilitated movement of sound waves.
Fish owl pairs vocalize in duets. This is an uncommon attribute recognized in less than 4 percent of bird species globally, most of which are in the tropics. The male usually initiates a fish owl duet, filling an air sac in his throat until it’s swollen like some monstrous, feathered bullfrog. He holds that position, the white patch of his throat now a conspicuous orb contrasting against the browns of his body and the grays of the gathering dusk, a signal to his mate that the vocalization is impending. After a moment he exhales a short and wheezy hoot—the sound of someone having the breath knocked out of him—and she answers immediately with one of her own, but deeper in tone. This is unusual among owl species, where females usually have the higher voice. The male then pushes out a longer, slightly higher hoot, which the female also responds to. This four-note call-and-response is over in three seconds, and they repeat the duet at regular intervals for anywhere from one minute to two hours. It is so synchronized that many people, hearing a fish owl pair vocalize, assume it is one bird.
This brown owl is eating a fish. I know what to call it
That ornithologist should’ve stuck to pigeons
The guys working the pigeons know what they are doing when it comes to marketing their stuff. This is the Nicobar Pigeon. I got to see one the other day actually at the National Aviary!
The pics you will see of this pigeon do play it up a bit. In the trees it doesn’t get to flash all that iridescence. It does have a beautiful snow white tail hidden under there though, which I thought looked very beautiful in contrast with the dark charcoal feathers of the rest of it. This is the best pic I found of that, and it’s much more representative of what it looks like in person without framing a perfect shot.
