Lintuyhdistys Birdlife calls for the Lapland’s owls to be given a predation peace in the south.
A native of Kotka Rebekka Häkli had to avoid a great horned owl with his car on Tuesday in Karhula, Kotka. He was in the car with his mother when the owl flew right in front of the car’s windshield.
“I had to slow down the car and had time to shout to my mother: owl!”
Häkli is fond of photography and had already had time on a beautiful frosty morning to regret that the camera was left at home.
“Then I stopped to take a few pictures of the owl sitting on top of the road sign with my phone.”
The barn owl encountered by Rebekka Häkli landed on the crosswalk sign in Kotka’s Karhula.
According to those who followed the owl’s movements before Häkli’s near-miss situation, the crows had been harassing a strange, large bird in a crowd when it tried to prey in the yard of an apartment building.
Possibly the condition of the great horned owl that had just flown in front of Häkli’s car deteriorated on Wednesday.
The caretakers of the sacred aviary applied for the owl’s treatment in the early afternoon, but it died in the aviary after a couple of hours.
“It was really starving, you could see it in the eyes right away. Owls often fly to the last, even if they are already in bad shape,” says the caretaker of Pyhtää’s birdhouse Arto Hokkanen.
Many different Lapland owl individuals have been observed in Kotka. Photographer Juha Metso took pictures of the Great Horned Owl in Kotkansaari last week.
The Lapland owl is a rarity in southern Finland.
Lapland owls was also observed on Tuesday in a couple of different places in Uusimaa, according to the bird observation system of the bird organization Birdlife.
“The arrival of owls in the south is a sign that there is a weak mole situation in their habitats. Often they are young, unfit individuals,” says a spokesman for Birdlife Finland Jan Södersved.
Lapland owls are wonderful birds, and they always attract nature photographers in droves.
“It’s worth being careful when telling about the location of the Lapland owl, because the camera rush can cause the sensitive owl to not be able to prey in peace and it will starve even more.”
Lapland owl is a species of forests that occurs in Finland in areas north of Central Finland. The strongest strains are in the Kainuu and Perämere region. However, they live further south as far as the Baltic countries and Poland.
“In spring and winter, the nutritional situation may be weak anyway. In addition, the surface of the hange may be hard, so they cannot catch the vole caught under the snow,” says Södersved.
Owls hunt with their very good hearing, so they can usually hear the sounds of moles scurrying under the snow.
About 600 pairs of Lapwing owls breed in Finland. It is the rarest of our resident owls.
If the tawny owl survives its difficult teenage years, it may live to be over ten years old. A Lapland owl that lived to be 16 years old has been found in Finland.
The barn owl managed to catch a wood mouse in Kotkansaari’s Isossapuisto.
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