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Owl of the Year Match 14 - Elf Owl vs Powerful Owl (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not to try to sway any votes, but I found that Australia has the Big Powerful Owl sculpture in Canberra.

It's part of a series of around 600 giant statues spread across Australia, built mainly as tourist traps, but have now (according to what I read on the net) become a greater part of Australia's cultural identity.

Aussies, as usual, correct me if I'm wrong, or tell me if you've been to see one of thesen it which one is the best?

Wiki: Australia's Big Things

So...I read about this statue before seeing it...

I wrote what you see above, and went to grab a pic to add to the post. I had to stop and see if I was looking at the right owl statue, because I thought, oh, this can't be it.

In the politest way possible...there is really something wrong with you Australians, and I now understand why New Zealanders get so upset being lumped in with you guys. So, now back to the post in progress...

This 8 meter / 26 foot tall statue, from the front at least, vaguely resembles an owl. From the back however, it looks even more like it was just repurposed from some other better left unknown project.

This joins another "famous" "owl" statue in Serbia.

ABC AU: Brother to Canberra's notorious penis owl erected in northern Serbia

Sigh.

You guys pulled one over on me this time...

On a serious note, the more I talk to some of you guys from down there, I am really coming to appreciate your sense of humor when I read your news articles. Your self awareness is quite enjoyable. Never change!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The penis owl is real and has cost the ACT government around $75k AUD a year to remove graffiti from it until they installed CCTV to prevent further vandalism.

There’s also a giant butt plug statue in the suburb of Phillip in the ACT.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I tried to find pics if the graffiti, but I found this article instead, which did describe the graffiti, but that didn't sound very creative.

The 75k it says was for all their art maintenance, the owl was about 3k, which seemed to surprise them as well.

Do you have a link to the other statue? I just keep getting statues of Captain Phillip, the owl, or dong-like statues in other places.