Photo by Johann Es
Ein Boobookkautz, aufgenommen auf dem Großen Feldberg im Taunus, bei einem Greifvogel Workshop.
Google's Translation:
A Boobook Owl, photographed on the Großer Feldberg in the Taunus, during a bird of prey workshop.
Original Facebook Translation:
A boobook machete, taken on the Großen Feldberg in Taunus, at a bird of prey workshop.
Australian Boobook, thought to be a variety of the NZ Morepork/Ruru up until 1999.
This whole post threw me for a loop. Between Facebook calling it a machete to me wondering why a German was using the Australian word for owl (thought this was a damp Short Eared at first). I wonder how this little one came to be so far from home.
That's the worst case of ath-owl-etes foot I've ever seen! 😜