bionerd23 yes.!!! i wish to visit Prypiat one day Happy B-day ! beautiful owl fella, it was having R.E.M. before u guys went in. u know they rule the nigh time.
It's a surprise that the owl didn't hear you way before you entered the room. They normally have extremely good hearing and even better directional hearing which enables them to pinpoint they prey in the fields. Perhaps this owl is not feeling very well.
yeah, that's possible. :( or do owls have a drowsy time on being woken up, too? i know i sure do, i sometimes don't even know where i am if you suddenly wake me up like that.
bionerd23 .. I'm not sure if like us they need a cup of tea etc after they wake up but he does look very slow. These raptors do not hibernate and are normally always on alert. I guess he could be tired or something though or perhaps resting, he obviously didn't see you as a threat ☺
It was not instantly threatened by the sound of human movement, because that's not something it has experienced very much. I'd say it was initially cautious, but not hugely alarmed. It got more unsettled when the humans didn't go away though. :)
yeah! their normal call is quite eerie, but you know it's this small beautiful owl, so it's not really scary. but did you know they can make a strange call during mating season that sounds almost like a fox? quite funny in retrospect but at the time, i nearly shit my pants, thinking we're surrounded by a "pack of foxes", haha.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aPgWeOGjYqI.html - calling female vs. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J6NuhlibHsM.html - fox scream yeah they're sufficiently different if you listen to them online, but not when you're out in the night lol. well, i'm clearly not a biologist. :P
Im amazed you managed to get so close, owls have excellent hearing. the radar dish shape of feathers around their eyes actually serves to channel sound to their ears (the edge of the eyes is also the edge of the head, an owls feathers extend a long way out from its body so they look 2 or 3 times fatter than they actually are. such fluffiness and soft outline allows totally silent flight). but with no direct flight available it probably just stayed still and "hoped" it wouldnt be seen
Nah, looks like a Tawny to me.... There's nothing "Super" about a sporting competition that's contested solely by the teams of one particular sport which is only played in the country where it originated. But try telling that to Americans, who also refer to their biggest American-only baseball competition as the "World Series". I clearly understand very little about Americans and their preferred "grown men chasing after a ball" recreational activities.
My owl is also chill like this too, even when I have people over that she hasn't seen before. Especially when it's day. The only times she kind of got alarmed was when we laugh loudly ~
Wow... what a beautiful bird; those claws look incredibly sharp :) I've never seen a grey Tawny owl soI did a bit of Googling... I just learned birds of prey come in different colours called "morphs" and this is a grey morph Tawny owl. Thank you for posting some more videos, it's very much appreciated :)
Equal parts creepy and cool... those eyes! I've tracked and shot (I mean photographed!) several Australian birds of prey, never an Owl though. Amazing creature, thanks for posting.
yeah, i heard you can get some silver youtube button or some shit then. i will put it in a nuclear reactor and activate it, so anybody who goes near it would die. then, it's gonna be a cool button.
Sweet thing! We have a lot of owls where I live. Sometimes we do run in to each other. I think this owl was sleeping and wanted to continue sleeping. Nighttime is their time. You might have been in its path of escape so it layed low.
Not a lot of human interaction in Pripyat. I imagine hasn’t acquired that fear. Seems quite content to rest and ignore the people in the room. Quite peaceful
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Some birds sleep with half their brain at a time and one eye open, so I think it was probably sleeping, even though it looked awake, it was probably just a basic awareness looking for danger and keeping balance.
How did this owl come and go from the building? I was afraid it would have flown into the window. I hope it didn’t and you just didn’t show us the footage. Anyhow. Heading to Berlin tomorrow for a long weekend.
well, my hand / camera was probably 50cm away from it, the rest of me was at an arm's reach. :P i could've probably grabbed it, to put it outside. but maybe that would have given it a heart attack. so we just left all doors open wide and left.
yeah, i was wondering the same. maybe because of echos / reflections that were confusing. plus, other people (she is looking at a person in sight in the beginning, before she spots me and another guy behind me). i was pretty much standing in the doorframe and just extending my arm with the camera, sometimes turning my head to look around, which is of course not visible in the video. hmm, i should have probably tried binaureal sounds on this one, too.
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