Mesmerising Owl Moments | BBC Earth 

Narrator: The owl's face is shaped like a satellite dish Owl: No, a satellite dish is shaped like an owl's face, son

I love owls, they are so elegant and mysterious

Owls are, without question, some of the most incredible and beautiful animals on this planet.

I was a painter on the Golden Gate bridge painting one day coming up on a pocket in the steel I’m face-to-face with the mother of a barn owl she had three babies in there I moved away and left them alone. Those eyes right in my face was awesome. This was 200 ft up on a swing stage.

Anyone else been standing in the middle of their kitchen for 30+ minutes watching owl vids ?

Can we take a moment to realize how elegant and beautiful owls are

The clip with wolves was incredible, seeing snowy owl attacking such a big apex predator

Extraordinary bird, with supreme skills to hear and fly 😍

They're like assasin birds. Silent and can detect enemies in hiding. It's awesome

with their incredible ability to actively monitor the surroundings in the dark, owls are unusually gifted with a unique ability.

08:06- I loved the moment when Great Grey Owl took off from a snowy perch. Amazingly beautiful to watch. Entire documentary is awesome. Thanks BBC Earth for making such awe-inspiring documentaries!!!

Anyone else melted when that egg hatched😍

Owls are such beautiful and unique creatures. I love barn owls especially - they look so mysterious and enchanting. And the fact that they fly so silently is just magical. If reincarnation is a thing, then I would like to be a barn owl!

I always tell this to my engineering students in my class.. "The nature is the one and the only greatest engineer of all time". Hands down!

6:49 the way the owl chirped and looked at camera😂😂🤣killing me

The 78 dislikes here are probably mice relatives....

I always love BBC Earth British TV in general. You don't see much documentaries here in the US as they tend to concentrate locally. But with the British TV, there's a lot to choose from.

One night I was driving a truck from Scotland down to Teeside England. Close to the border,you come to a roundabout where you can go straight on into Berwick or turn right, up the hill, headed towards Newcastle. As I started up the hill a Barn Owl came out of the trees and flew directly in front of the windshield for what seemed like 10-15 seconds. He was only a few feet in front of the truck and I had the most wonderful view of him. It's a moment and memory I'll never forget.

Owls have barbs on their first primary feathers which break up the wind to muffle the sound. Not just being graceful but their feather design is mainly why they have silent flight. Slightly mentioned in the video, low wing loading (small, light body with big wings) also helps generate lift in flight.

Owls have always fascinated and intrigued me. Such spectacular creatures.

BBC Earth + Owls = instant like

What impressed me most about the final clip wasn't the owl's flying skills. Wolves have excellent hearing, and even they couldn't hear her diving at them. That's incredible. It grants some compelling insight into why nothing wants to mess with a large adult owl.

Owls... the Rolls Royce of the sky.

I have always loved owls. Such hauntingly, beautiful masters of the night. Since i was a child growing up in Zimbabwe, I would always get so excited when one of our Spotted Eagle Owls would land in the garden.

Magnificent, beautiful creatures; their soundless flight or the air raid on the wolf are to be truly admired. Owls are my favorite birds - thank you for posting this wonderful video.

Flashbacks to Jurassic Park and the velociraptor hatching when he says about “come on little one” and “there you are” 😳🦖

I love owls, they are so majestic, a tawny owl comes and sits in the tree in front of my house, it makes me feel really safe, grounded, alive and happy

I just love thier big mysterious eyes..😍🦉

At night barn owls fly down the middle of our street looking for rats and mice. All you can see is a ghostly silhouette and the raspy sound of their call. They are one of my favorite nightly visitors.

Flight quiet enough to sneak up behind a wolf. Oh, how they taunt.

Hatsoff to the people who make these videos possible

Owl is one of the most beautiful🦉

Owls are great, what other bird has what is essentially a vertical dropkick?

Owls are like the ninjas of bird

Narrator: The recording of the owl's flight is completely silent The recording: Pterodactyl noises

There are a lot of bird species where I live in Florida. I hear owls every night - usually Barred Owls and Great Horned Owls. If I call to them, they call back to me and come closer.

a birds hearing is so much more complicated the the average human big time = my cockatiels are still teaching me

I’ve always known about the owls being silent flyers but the illustrations with the feathers really showed the proof.

I see owls, I click. 😍

Breathtakingly beautiful ! Thank you BBC Earth.

I keep coming back and watching these nature videos. I just can't get enough!

An owl flew past my porch one morning in the dark I saw a dark object fly past the porch & a whisper of feathers amazing

Thank you BBC Earth

I do closed captioning professionally and have profound hyperacusis. And even I could not hear a single thing when the owl was flying. Truly incredible.

Really it's my favorite bird, it has unique character in the world ❤🌈

The owls feathers reduces the turbulence in the air making them fly quietly, very impressive.

10:34 He's even smiling too , like "Hehe boi"

Stunning. Meticulous. You have honored owls with this beautiful work.

amazing and beautiful creatures, those dislikes are probably from the wolves:)

For almost 65 years I've adored parrots, cockatoos, keets and all types of exotic, colorful, wonderfully-adorned beauties. Baretta birds? Hell yeah!!! (Anyone younger than 40 probably won't know what I'm talking about lol) However, the birds that have always had my full attention are the regal, majestic, predatory hunters in the skies. Hawks, falcons, eagles, kites and...most importantly...owls of ALL types. Not sure what the attraction is but owls just seem so damn loveable and Panda Bear/Teddy Bear-ish, yanno? I love their faces, their eyes, the way they turn and, ultimately, their silence in flight while hunting.

*Owls got me into bird photography this past December*

Probably one of the unequivocally cool modern dinosaurs

So cool! All the birds are just gorgeous!

So beautiful to watch them fly and how effortlessly their wings allow them to gain altitude and speed with a few silent beats of their wings

Walking in the high desert at dusk, I got close enough to a great horned owl that it left it's perch in a small tree and flew away from me. What a sight! One of only a couple of times I've seen these magnificent birds in the wild.

A ' Human Owl ' since 1957 when my Chinese classmates nicknamed me ' Mao Tao Ying ' = Owl (in Cantonese) with big rounded short-sight glasses in Diocesan Boys School (DBS) in Hong Kong. We will be having our 60th Anniversary in November 2024 with me being the most senior at 80 in August. They still call me ' Mao Tao Ying ' having only one eye from a bad doctor in 2017. ALL THE BEST TO MY CHINESE CLASSMATES & FAMILIES! (from my home ' The City of Angels, Bangkok ')

Luna & Lily - someone has been watching Harry Potter 👀

The owl is an amazing bird which has a clear night vision power.🦉🦉

Thanks BBC Earth. 👍

Incredible creations of the natural world.

Thanks for this, I have always loved owls but your presentation taught me a lot and made me that much more in awe of them

Owls are so amazing. There is an owl that visits a small park near where I live in summer time. I can't wait for it's return. I found a kind of hawk moth last summer and I'm really interested in insects, too. So I picked up the moth to take a closer look and then it flew off from my hand! Unbelievably, a second later the owl flew silently past me and caught the poor hawk moth. That was mesmerizing to see, I did feel a bit bad for the moth but at the same time to see a moth fly right past me and caught the moth was fantastic! I also saw it catch a sparrow the week before that. Such awesome birds!

Amazing video! I just learned more about owls in 14 min. than I ever knew. As a hunter/fisherman/outdoorsman I've been listening to owls my whole life since I was a young boy and I never knew that they could fly silently in Stealth Mode. Years ago while turkey hunting I was slowly making my way up a steep hill early in the morning with barely enough daylight to see the ground when I saw movement coming straight at me, I put my hand up out of reflex and a small owl hit me directly in my right hand and left scratches down my cheek. When I told my Dad what happened he said that it probably saw the top of my cap moving as I walked and thought it was a squirrel or a mouse and judging by the small size of the owl it was probably a screech owl. Scary incident absolutely, if it wasn't for my fast reflexes I could have lost my right eye, yet only received a few scratches and the owl was unscathed as it flew away.

Also consider that the silent flight of the owl may have a dual purpose. Avoids startling their prey, and allows them to listen closely right up until the moment of impact.

okay, owls are my next favourite after penguins. damn nature. you made everyone so unique

Can we get an owl series please?! If there’s one I should know, I’m always open to suggestions

Thank you for all your compliments We Owls thankyou.

There's something really special about OWLS

My next tattoo is gonna be a big owl going across my back

Basically if owls were 13 feet tall we would be very screwed.

I like to hear the narator ...so calm and mysterious

This type of content helps me forget about the bag things in life and is so relaxing it cancels out my inability to fall asleep

Wow, I knew owls were quiet fliers, but I didn't realize they were silent. Amazing.

Absolutely LOVE this and learned so much! LOVE the owls!!

Thank you so much for this owl documentary.

Best documentary makers

it’s not only the weight or the way of flying which allows owls to fly silently, it’s also that they have very thin barbules at the end of their feathers which further limits air disturbance

My friend told me that she heard an owl hooting near her condominium on Old Georgetown Road. It is walking distance from the White Flint Metro Station. That means that there are mice around near her home. The coolest animal that I saw near the White Flint Metro Center was what I believe was a beaver. That there is plenty of cool stuff to see there.

Absolutely AMAZING, incredible, you have to love these very beautiful and totally silent hunters. Truly amazing.

Our Owl Story. So, here in New Jersey, we do have a wonderful raptor rehab organization, called The Raptor Trust. My wife and I were passing one of the owl enclosures when an owl clearly got very agitated. The docent was there and explained: The owl thought of us as other owls. And since we were not as elevated as the owl, he was very worried for us and was trying to tell us to get to higher ground.

Such an amazing creation of Nature...👌

I love the air of mystery surrounding owls. Although many falconry experts claim they are not intelligent, there are many sources that debate this in terms of long term study of these birds.

6:48 that owl is such a diva, he’s like, “Oh! You looking at me? Don’t answer that, because I know you are.”

14:12 what a beautiful capture.

show's kestrel fumbling : "the kestrel simply doesn't have what it takes."

Really awesome !!! What if I could work on something like that? Research so beautifully is not possible without the BBC. But unfortunately I was born in a developing country for which this is not possible.

Beautiful creatures. Truly magnificent.

They are beautiful

13:33 Wow, I like that owl's attacking skills!!!!🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉

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Threw eyes of eyes And the wisdom so so wise

Superbe. I cracked up at the little owl's face at the end, after his fierce mom lands back on the nest. She's all majestic and that fluffy brown-grey potato is peacefully chewing like it's no big deal "yup that's mom for ya"

My hubby everytime i try to intimidate him: Oh look! An owl is starting at me 🤣.

Daaaamn that ending ! BRO!

The editing during the hearing segment where it's like an analysis program makes owls seem like finely tuned hunters (which, let's be real, they are)

I hate it when they turned their heads to the camera like a initial advertising... so fierce, decisive and proud... i love you guys...

If the zombie apocalypse happens you definitely want to be an Owl. Not only they are the most effective hunters by either day time or night time. These guys are taking on Wolves (with an S. Plural) (!!!) Effortlessly badass flying ninjas.

Gotta love owls! Whooo doesn't?

this has been the greatest video of all time.

This is my favorite bird and cannot get over oferte power they have. Thanks for this educational video.