Tag: owl

Injured young owl rescued

Post date May 29, 2013

Pedestrians found a young long-eared owl in the castle park of Schönbrunn, Vienna. The owl was sitting on the floor and was attacked by crows. She was taken to the “owl and birds of prey institution” of Haringsee (district of Gänserndorf, Lower Austria). The pedestrians rescued the long-eared owl. The owl was examined in the […]

Tags birds, EGS, Frey, Haringsee, head, institution, owl, parents, prey, Schönbrunn

‘Owl of Death’ haunts Carinthian village

General News

Post date June 2, 2010

Residents of a small town in Carinthia feared they were doomed after a bird nicknamed the “Owl of Death” started to make strange sounds in the middle of the night.Locals in Drobollach at the Faaker Lake consulted the local hunter after several sleepless nights of the shrieking beeping sounds from the Eurasian Scops-owl. Obscure myths […]

Tags bird, death, head, hunting, lake, Night, owl, residents, Sereinig, sounds