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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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I was leaning towards male for this one. Makes can still have a modest amount of speckles, but tend to have less as they age. Here is a male and female pair. You can see the male has spots like the post picture, but considerably less than the female.
They start off all black as babies.
Ooh that is significant difference,
I saw couple of almost pure white from previous posts, so owl from this seemd to have more specks.
But this is night & day difference in not only quantity but size also.
Young ones are like polar explorers in fur coat with snow goggles (like black eye piercing trough tiny holes).
They're not all quite this different, but it's much more of a visual clue than we get with most owls.
The babies are so cute. These and the Saw Whet owls look so different between baby and adult.
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