WINNER: ELF OWL 47-27

The matchup many of you have been waiting for!

The Elf Owl is a sparrow sized owl of the Southwest US and Mexico and Baja. It loves to live in woodpecker holes in giant desert cacti. It has trademark white eyebrows, sure to get your attention. Don’t try to hold it though, when grabbed, it will play dead in an attempt to escape! These tiny owls are bug hunters, and love to eat scorpions, where they remove to stinger before swallowing them. Will this tiny owl be able to take on its challenger today?

The Powerful Owl is the largest of the Australian owls. It dominated the eastern coast forests where it eats a variety of medium sized marsupials like gliders and possums. The Powerful Owl is known for taking prey much larger in relation to its own size than almost any other raptor. It can also catch the largest bat, the Flying Fox. Will this giant defeat the tiny Elf?

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  • Lophostemon@aussie.zone
    12·
    9 months ago

    A Powerful Owl once attempted to make off with my mother-in-law, lifting her several metres into the sky and mostly ripping off her head before dropping her into a tangle of exotic brambles.

    She recovered quickly however and is still shrieking instructions to all concerned at all times, despite the eventual loss of her head due to massive infection, probably because the silly owl never cleans its claws.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      9 months ago

      As an American, I will just take any Australian animal stories as 100% true no matter what! 😁

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
        3·
        9 months ago

        If you’re talking about the Kathleen Peterson theory, that was a Barred Owl.

        All owls, and most birds in general, will try to fend you off if you get to close, but Barred Owls are generally the most common to make the news for attacking people. You can see some nasty cuts people have gotten if you search for them.

        I think it was in Georgia North Carolina this year, people named there local owl Owl Capone or something like that after he attacked a number of people and they even started selling shirts of him.

        Found a link

        • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          I was talking about her, but really only making a joke, i didn’t even remember the details

          Thanks for reminding me ( i had even forgotten the name ).

          Some animals are lucky to have good humans around them:

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
            2·
            9 months ago

            I figured so, but I have heard of that theory until recently when one of you all filled me in. I don’t do true crime stuff often, so I hadn’t heard it before.

            It’s nice when the neighborhoods rally around the owl. I’ve read some post where people take it as a badge if honor being swooped by the owl.

        • onigiri@lemm.ee
          2·
          9 months ago

          I thought I was experiencing deja vous, but there was also an owl in a Christmas tree in 2019 in Georgia. Link