Owl Notes-Great Grey Owl Banding

[@Error403HRD]

Those birds are a beauty, personally my favorite species.

[@mauthemau6260]

There are at least in my top 5 favorite owl species.

[@danieljcox]

Mine too. The second cover story I did for national Geographic was on Great Gray Owls. Most of is shot just five minutes from my home in Montana.

[@77CGT]

Such a beautiful bird!! Thank you!

[@danieljcox]

Our pleasure!

[@rimpikumar4061]

@@danieljcox 👋 daniel

[@JOh27]

Very cute thank you for showing us the birds

[@GoodDay-yw7qe]

God knows how much I love them ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Beauty on earth

[@ericguzman4367]

Thank you all guys... you're doing such a worderful job with those beautiful birds

[@corrbox2]

Thank you for sharing your research of these very interesting Great Grey Owl's. Denver does a wonderful job taking care of the Owl's with his team. Wonderful and steady photography! *****

[@danieljcox]

Thanks for watching!

[@initspurestform1793]

Great job guys!!! You are doing a great thing helping these amazing old beasts!!!

[@maryhoward8760]

Wow! So exciting to watch!

[@MairzedotesHoots]

that nest is a lot wider than it looks on cam. thanks for making this and putting some reality to our "musings" lol. "easy, easy and we will both be better off!" too funny.

[@danieljcox]

I know, glad you caught that. I thought that was funny too.

[@MairzedotesHoots]

@@danieljcox thank you so much for the video. Denver is a "hoot"

[@huntstyle]

Oh, such beauties! I'm on a mission to photograph some Great Grey's now!

[@2_peeaak]

Bird: Ugh How dare they trap me, i have a CHILD💀💀🙄🙄🙄

[@williamking1905]

They look incredible

[@v42dyk36]

2:20 owl sound of Defence

[@Shinzon23]

They look so done with you as your doing the band

[@Coreyvallephoto]

Oh my gosh this is wonderful

[@Panlover_]

These guys are literally just chilling, pretty amazing that they don't freak out when they're grabbed, maybe it's because evolutionarily speaking, if they struggle, they're likely to break one of their fragile bones?

[@isaknilsson2116]

Or they’re like Harpy Eagles they don’t care

[@alunsinus_prime]

Huh, but they click their beaks. What does that mean?

[@isaknilsson2116]

@@alunsinus_prime angry

[@marlysilva3213]

Esses dois bebês são a coisa mais linda desse mundo

[@31Seren]

Where are they now?

[@meadow8888]

One of my favourite video's, thank you SO MUCH!! That Dad is WAY TOO CUTE FOR WORDS!! You're a real trooper, Denver, going up and down those ladders, and this video just makes me MORE worried about ya doing it, ;) All of you do such an amazing job, including you, Daniel, of course, or we wouldn't be seeing a thing, xoxoxo, 😊😘💕 We REALLY need a GGO emoji, ;)

[@danieljcox]

Thanks so much

[@10k.rich1e2]

This is my first time seeing owl in real life

[@sachincb555]

So cute 😘

[@AwaisPirzada34]

Sooooooooooo cute😍😘🦉

[@ristomattikolsi5711]

You did a good job there, but you were also lucky that the mother owl didn't come on to you while you were ivestigating her babies. They might get pretty angry and agressive in situations like that wich is very dangerous.

[@somebodythatiusetoknow2027]

Cute typewriters

[@ardalla535]

I thought at first they were going to use the ladder to try and grab the bird off the nest. Wait minute, that's not going to work.

[@wildlifebybrianhoule]

I'm a few years behind this video, but is there a website or link where we can read the research?

[@danieljcox]

Greetings Brian, sorry for not having that link in the information but here it is now www.owlresearchinstitute.org

[@wildlifebybrianhoule]

@@danieljcox all good Dan. I’ll look into these for sure. I’m fascinated by owls. Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2023!

[@rsullivan5083]

Very cool process and beautiful owls. Are most of these bandings on private or public lands?

[@danieljcox]

Mostly private

[@ssn-5898]

Angry puffballs

[@jordialba2367]

You put a metal band around his leg? I would not want someone doing that to me.

[@kiethj7]

This helps keep track of them to keep them protected. Conservation you know. Chill

[@Ethan-uo4fr]

@J Freid hmm. conservation is important, and idk about the chewing thing, but sometimes I feel like these kinds of studies are invasive… but in the end the knowledge gained and awareness spread by these kinds of programs is probably better for the great gray as a species in the long term

[@leeguzman8357]

cómo cojio ese búho párese de peluche

[@bigzay5313]

Wouldn’t it be best for humans to just leave our creatures alone ?

[@danieljcox]

Some folks might think that would be best but without science we would not have any idea how these animals are doing. Kind of like sticking your head in the sand. An even better idea would be we humans all extirpate ourselves from the planet. That would be the best thing for all animals and that would include you as well. Just something to think about.

[@mauthemau6260]

@@danieljcox Yeah that’s true and also, they need to monitor them so they know if the population is declining or getting better...

[@beerme75]

Which forest is that?

[@cintulator2]

Use goggles

[@thoushaltnotlie7628]

I very roughly estimate the equivalent band on a human leg to be at least 3 inches wide. If I was an owl I would not be very happy with these people. The only way I see this as justified is if this research directly saving owl's lives. Any reason other than that and these people are not so cool. So interesting to me that these people do this to birds they love. Humans are so lame.

[@axelschroeder977]

They should be wearing gloves

[@enzopalma5376]

I hope they fed the baby owls

[@donwatkins9769]

I wish you would leave them alone and not stress babies or parents!!!!!!!

[@danieljcox]

Nothing is ever perfect Don. Your request would be something similar to you deciding not to ever go see the Dr. and at some point coming down with an ailment due to lack of taking care of yourself. Good science is essential to understand how humans are affecting our planet and the animals that we share it with. Without quality science, like that being done by the Owl Research Institute, we would have no idea of the issues we've all caused. This family of great grays were no worse for wear and have continued to thrive even after their annual checkup.

[@onlythaclonessir2525]

It's a lie, they want the bird trapped.