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He will be fine....

Yes they’ll “let” the owl stay free.

The rats however...

this must be the superb owl everyone was talking about

So, did an eagle and owl mate - to create Flaco?

That's cool. Could mate with other native owls perhaps

Happy to hear they worked things out.

If he's doing fine on his own, it's good that he can be free. And hey, since he's hanging out in a park, people will still be able to enjoy seeing him.

Is this is how the owl infestations of Futurama got started?

His species does not live in New York and hybridization is pretty unlikely so prob not

I don't know how genetically close they are to other owl species. However if they are capable I wouldn't rule it out

Not in New York.

Probably a good thing for the concrete jungles of NY that they get eaten up

Bubo bubo!

That owl will eat like a king for the rest of his life!

Vampires have huge respect for owls. 1: they’re nocturnal. 2: they’re predators. And 3: they don’t give a hoot where they dump their scat.

Eurasian Eagle-Owl and Great Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus) have hybridized before (in zoo populations).

The Great Horned Owl is native to New York, so I would not rule it out.

They're so closely related to the Great Horned Owl (native to the US, including New York state) that they might be conspecific (ie, just two different expressions of the same species), and there have been viable hybrids between the two species before.

I used to have one of these in the UK.

They're huge big softies that will 100% reduce the local dog and cat population.

There's debate taking in the UK regarding the recent successful breeding population of Euros as to whether They're escapee birds or have recolonised from Europe and therefore should be culled. I say leave them be.

You sent me down a rabbit hole as I had no idea we had them here.

> The Scots Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Irish Gaelic languages all have words for them

So interesting to see they used language as a way of determining whether we used to have owls

Possible but unlikely. There’s going to be some pretty significant behavioral differences between him and any great horned owls, especially if he’s been in a zoo his whole life. The behavioral differences will make it hard to find a mate. Released zoo animals are less likely to find a wild mate (and that’s not even considering that he’s a different species lol)

Also great horned owl breeding season started weeks ago so he’s gonna have to pick up the pace if he wants to find a mate. He’s already behind so he would need to find a territory, nesting site, and a willing mate in the next 2-3 weeks

Also great horned owls are semi-uncommon in the city so he’ll have pretty limited options. If he’s still in central park I think there is actually a single female there though

Well somebody better that owl he won't be prosecuted for absconding his prison cell. Good for him I say.

The populationnis becoming quite well established and for obvious reasons people keep quiet about their locations.

Seeing as they are a recent extirpated species I think it's great to see them back in the UK.

“He can remain free”

AKA: we lost track of him :’D

He certainly gonna try

Professor Thaddeus, is that you?

Eagle owls or just owls in general?

He’s gonna go live in a sky scrapper around Central Park like the baller he is

r/superbowl

Is this the same owl that “had to be captured” because he wouldn’t know how to feed himself?

I hope he starts a family and sticks it to everyone that said he was toast. The sheer volume of mice and rats should supersize him —so long as he doesn’t eat a rat that consumed poison bait.

I say release a whole gaggle of owls. Take all the rats out.

My new favorite show!

Owl is the symbol of Bohemian Grove and basically the Illuminati.

MAYBE they manage to have offspring, but I highly doubt those offspring would be fertile.

r/superbowl indeed!

Quick, draft a resolution to rename the City to New New York. The Prophecy must come true!

"He's just an asshole owl." - Sociopathic Archfey

Holy hell that comment made my day lol thanks for that

You tell me, I didn't expect to see a CR reference here at all :D

Then I’ve done my duty. Bidet to you, fellow Critter.

Owls are a nocturnal animal that diverged from non-avian dinosaurs at least 60 million years ago

he's from a a species of owl that is non-native to the US. He's going to live and even more solitary life than most owls

But not in the wild. Tigers and lions hybridize too but only in zoos.

Owls are also a symbol of the supernatural otherworld in the show Twin Peaks. Are we just listing fictional things that owls are a part of? I can go on.

And yeah I know there was and probably is still a group of nerds who go by illuminati and rich people have a little burning man party called bohemian Grove but since you replied like this I highly doubt you think that's all those things are.

Owls well that ends well.

Pleas use his full name: Lord Pretty Flaco Jodye

Elite

>They're huge big softies that will 100% reduce the local dog and cat population.

......Eh?

An owl might attack a kitten or a very small dog, but....

They can live around 20 in the wild and up to 60 in captivity, it's not like he's only got one shot.

He might pick off some rats, too

A euro will take a small deer.

They're almost twice the size of a Great Horned Owl and they're impressive enough.

But is he elite?

Oh I kinda assumed they would be trying to recapture him later on, but if they give up totally then I totally agree!

He gunna get it in

Yeah, it could totally be as ineffective a hybridazation as coywolves... wait.

The reality is that of all the predictors we have of whether two species can hybridize, this guy checks a few of those boxes with at least one of the local species. We don't have enough understanding to say very much about viable hybrid offspring coming from this animal.

Yeah more research is needed. I would like to be wrong because I find the idea of hybridization to be very interesting. But yeah, I think it’s much more likely for the offspring to not be fertile. And that’s if they do manage to mate in the first place.

I don't think they even mate. But I wouldn't have thought that of wolves and coyotes, either. So here we are lol

Yeah life uh, finds a way😂

Saw him last week. He’s doing fine.

Can he find and crossbreed with a different type of owl? Never mind the question of romance and attraction - can nature make it work?

There's a very, very small chance he could make it work with a ...I wanna say a great horned owl but don't quote me. But making that happen, in NYC, as a different species is pretty damn low.

Uplifting to people who know fuck all about invasive species