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A GHO supposedly can lift and fly with an animal 1.4x the owl's weight. Gil
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Well, turns out the victim was a Barred Owl. Classic case of tribal warfare.
SRH
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I have read that great horned owls also hunt, kill, and eat wild turkey at night, knocking the turkey to the ground and killing it there.
One writer even documented his killing of GHO to protect turkey so that he could hunt them.
Maybe he preferred turkey to GHO ?
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Killing a GHO is frown on in my state. If you have a problem with one you’d better call the Game Warden and go from there. Personally I’d just leave them alone and enjoy their call in the night.
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Killing a GHO is frown on in my state. If you have a problem with one you’d better call the Game Warden and go from there. Personally I’d just leave them alone and enjoy their call in the night. I think it might be a federal issue - raptors get special attention from the Feds. That said, to protect livestock, I doubt you will have much of an issue with the law. I also doubt GHOs are significant predators on turkeys or other game birds at a population level.
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The B-2 Stealth Bomber of raptors is the Golden Eagle. They are used to hunt wolves in the 'Stans in Asia.
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did ah evah tell youse bout mah trained grouse huntin owl named beto? What's wrong with you Ed? Can't you keep your stories straight? You are sounding like BrentD again. First you told us your grouse flushing owl's name was Bennie, and then you told us it was Henry: HENRY THE GROUSE OWL, CHAPTER II keet, yeah yeah, now ah members bout bennie...ah shot his ass fur goin out at night an catchin an killin grouse on his own...little bastard would kill erm an jest eat da heads, an leave da rest o da bird on da ground...now mebbee bennie had ah thang wid da aints, but dont wanna no bout dat...ah hated to do hit, but cant abide wastin birds...no watt ah mean...an ah certainly did not take no pleasure in killin bennie...well mebbee jest ah little...ah mean, he was a ferice little bugger...when he was hot on the tail of ah grouse, his normally yaller eyes would glow like red hot coals at night...kinda reminded me of how ah shotgun receiver looks after hit was heated red hot wid da torch, no watt ah mean...
anyway, henry was bennies cuzin, from savannah, twist removed, an kin to da wilkes, don ja know... So tell us how his name now got changed to Beto. And could you also tell us why you and BrentD seem to have so much in common? Just how much DNA do you and BrentD share, and how did that happen?
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The hapless victim ...................... lost his head.  SRH
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Looks like things didn't work out well for the barred. They are known to do the same to Western Spotted Owls. It's a tough world out there.
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Stan,
Impressive looking talons on that owl!
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