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Photos by Pradeepkumar Devadoss

These photos are from a 50 photo album from the photographer.

This is a great looking owl found from southern India and China, down through Indonesia.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Lol owls are the total package!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A real cutie. Only the top pic gives Samara from The Ring vibes...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know what it says for my sense of taste, but my girlfriend thought that pic was creepy too.

I think it looks very bashful and like it's enjoying a nice breeze. Perhaps I'm just mad with social queues. 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It has a very mad scientist in the gusts of a storm look, I'd say

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ooo, it needs some lightning bolts!

It's aliiiive!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Fish owls are some of the superbiest of all!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This looks like the inspiration for the newer version of nite owl from watchmen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It would be a great look for a non-satirical Nite Owl!

I do like the movie costume a lot though, even if it is (purposely) derivative.

I smile every time I think of his airship, Archie. It's also great as an owl themed vehicle, yet it also looks like a potato, so it makes me chuckle to myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bring new meanings to "a-fish-owl photographer" I hope he/she is paid well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

😆

They deserve it. It isn't easy to get to where many of these owls live, and then once you get there, then you need to find them!

I'm sure there's a good number of hours invested in each shot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah. The best wildlife photographers are normally cold, wet or bitten all over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Being an owl is a busy job!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When I first saw the eyes they looked so very creepy. After realizing they were pretty eyelids it looks very sweet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, that makes sense. I didn't think about it that way.

I'm glad it won you over in the end!

[–] Lumun 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Another BFO! Why does it seem like every fish owl is named after something starting with B?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, we got Blakiston, Brown, and Buffy...but there is also Tawny!

That's it for the Ketupa genus, but if we go into the fish-ing owls of Scotopelia, we get the Pel's, Roufus, and Vermiculated Fishing Owls!