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.
Thank you! I knew I had a few German followers, so I was hoping one of you would comment.
I tried looking up the area a little to try and see where this was at, but I wasn't having much luck, and then I got busy.
I know places trade species with each other, but Germany and Australia feel so far apart and my mind pictures them as totally different places, but that is likely just my ignorance of other places. 😉