Mystery, stealth and, to some extent, fear. These are some of the sensations aroused by Owls. And in this case, small hidden in the middle of a photo manages to arouse amazement for its incredible mimicry.
It’s a little owl cleverly hiding its brownish plumage on several stone walls on a south Sheffield farm. And on the networks the picture went viral for a reason: few manage to see it before zooming in on the photo.
The picture is almost perfect. take a little’ owl, or owl of Athenastanding on a dry stone wall in the idyllic town of foolish, in the Derbyshire Peak District.
Unlike other owls, the owl sees colors and hunts day and night; anyway this seems to be looking at the photographer.
The species is usually found in farmland, rural towns and parks, often perched on fence posts or walls like the one in the image above. It looks like it isn’t, but the bird is.
owls usually have yellow or brownish eyes and its fur is mottled cream and brown. They mainly feed on moths, beetles, earwigs and earthworms, but they also risk becoming prey. Despite the fear they generate in people, they are animals that do not attack humans unless they feel threatened.
THE marks on the back of owls act as armor, deterring predators such as hawks and even other larger owls.
The myth of the fear of owls has been maintained over the centuries with surprising news. Last year British scientists discovered in Ghana a giant owl that hasn’t been seen for more than 150 years and they managed to take a photograph of it that is astonishing the world.
In January 2022, a snowy owl unexpectedly appeared on the Capitoline Hill and other emblematic buildings of Washingtonand was captured by photographers among the imposing facade of the Union Station train station, attracting hundreds of onlookers and birdwatchers from all over the country, who tried to locate it and understand how a species that lives thousands of miles away had arrived there . kilometers away.
Source: Clarin
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