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.
I can see that for a Great Grey, they got tons of feathers everywhere, but some of the tropic and temperate owls that don’t have fuzzy feet and legs would have to have a lower percentage, I’d think.
I’ll have to see if I can find a more definitive source for this factoid one of these days. It’s one of those things I see repeated all the time but no source is ever given.
But they are still very floody beasts whatever the actual number 😊