From Melvin Laureano Nature & Wildlife

A Great Gray Owl delicately testing the strength of a pine tree’s tip before settling-these large owls often perch high to scan and listen for prey below.

Mountainview County, AB

The world’s largest owl by overall length, the Great Grey is mostly air.

  • Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This has been studied and proven incorrect

    bird skeletons can appear to be thin and delicate, yet contribute just as much to total body mass as do the skeletons of terrestrial mammals.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2880151/

    Next day edit - Akshually this was just meant to be an interesting reply, hopefully it was well received. I was tired and busy yesterday, sorry if this came across as blunt/rude.