From Middle TN Raptor Center

We took advantage of the sunshine today and cleaned and disinfected outdoor enclosures, replaced perching material, scrubbed water dishes, repaired perches, and played musical chairs with birds. Several rehab birds were moved outside to get flight time today since we had 2 releases yesterday that freed up some much needed space! We also rotated a few into larger enclosures so they are one step closer to regaining their freedom. We are pooped.

  • teft
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    17 minutes ago

    He She looks like passion dragon fruit.

    • anon6789OP
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      231 minutes ago

      Oh, it is spotty like that!

      I really love how most of the owl’s spots are like tiny equilateral triangles.

      I think that’s a dragonfruit though. The passion fruit looks like someone forgot about a hard boiled egg for a really long time.

      Also, like the Snowy Owls, the Barn Owls with more spots are usually the females. The running theory seems to be this is something camouflage related.

      • teft
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        218 minutes ago

        It totally is dragon fruit. My mind mixed the two up since I was thinking of the spanish words for them. Pitaya (dragon fruit) and maracuyá (passion fruit).

        • anon6789OP
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          15 minutes ago

          maracuyá

          This feels like a fun word to say!

          I didn’t want to come off all “well ackshually…” on you! I’m always overly cautious correcting people, but I assumed that was what you meant.

    • anon6789OP
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      23 hours ago

      Nice looking website they have too! A lot of places don’t have the free time to have nice websites or social media, but these people seem to do a lot of it in comparison.

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        3 hours ago

        The color matched feet are a nice touch on this model.