Australian barn owl. Super cool bird and amazing up close. Moves its head side to side which is done to hear specific sound or judge distance. The face is dish shaped to funnel sounds to its ears. Interestingly the handler said that the eyesight is so amazing that it can see individual wing beats on a fly going by where we would only see a blur. Its claws are also so powerful that if it wanted to it could easily pierce the handlers full leather gloves.
The weight strength on each talons tip is over 2 tonnes. The handler specifically feeds the owl every single time it lands on the gloves.
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❤️ Bless him what a beauty!! I hope he gets set free one day.
Yes I wish so too I actually felt sorry for the birds there. Its clearly unnatural for them to be in cages. You can see it in they're demeanour that they are not happy.
Cool ... I hope one day I can photography also this bird :) ... it looks very cool and strong bird :)
Very cute owl😊