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Employee at a nature reserve near Abu Dhabi spotted a long-eared owl in tree during wildlife survey, a species rarely seen in country, photos show & study said.

A long-eared owl takes flight after being banded and released by Denver Holt and his crew. A little smaller than a mallard duck, long-eared owls only weigh about half a pound.

Indeed, the day before I visit, the brutality of mother nature was on full, gory display as a short-eared owl ate its own sibling. Some online complained that it was shown.

Denver Holt, left, and Matt Larson take measurements on a long-eared owl captured in a gully west of Missoula recently. Holt has been studying the birds for 30 years, one of the longest continuous ...

"We've got live long-eared owl for the first time, they're a really tricky bird to find. "We've had, for the first time ever, live short-eared owl - very, very beautiful birds, with six youngsters.

The long-eared owl, or ‘ceann cait’ in Irish, referencing its cat-like head, is so called because of its long feathery tufts, resembling ears.

This one was an Antillean short-eared owl, a subspecies of the short-eared owl, one of the most widely distributed bird species in the world.

The feathers of Long-eared Owls can vary within a population and that variation gives clues as to why the owls have these special pigments.

Fluorescent pigments in the feathers of Long-eared Owls can only be seen by humans with the help of ultraviolet light. Credit: Chris Neri ...

In a study recently published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, researchers from Drexel University's College of Arts and Sciences report their discovery of fluorescent pigments in the feathers of ...