For owls that are superb.
US Wild Animal Rescue Database: Animal Help Now
International Wildlife Rescues: RescueShelter.com
Australia Rescue Help: WIRES
Germany-Austria-Switzerland-Italy Wild Bird Rescue: wildvogelhilfe.org
If you find an injured owl:
Note your exact location so the owl can be released back where it came from. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist to get correct advice and immediate assistance.
Minimize stress for the owl. If you can catch it, toss a towel or sweater over it and get it in a cardboard box or pet carrier. It should have room to be comfortable but not so much it can panic and injure itself. If you can’t catch it, keep people and animals away until help can come.
Do not give food or water! If you feed them the wrong thing or give them water improperly, you can accidentally kill them. It can also cause problems if they require anesthesia once help arrives, complicating procedures and costing valuable time.
If it is a baby owl, and it looks safe and uninjured, leave it be. Time on the ground is part of their growing up. They can fly to some extent and climb trees. If animals or people are nearby, put it up on a branch so it’s safe. If it’s injured, follow the above advice.
For more detailed help, see the OwlPages Rescue page.
Rubi
From the Scottish Owl Centre
Behind the scenes pics of some of the birds on today's photo workshop with Dean Bricknell; Tony the Tawny loves these adventures into the woods; Mac the Short-eared Owl always looked ready to go-go-go; Rubi the newbie White Faced Owl and new kid Aspen the Tengmalm's (or Boreal) Owl made their workshop debuts.
Yup, it's Tengmalm to the Europeans. He was huge in the nature scene in the 1780s, and really liked owls, so after really improving the owl documentation of the day, they honored him by naming this owl after him (Strix tengmalmi). It turns out he was not the first to have documented this owl as it was originally though, plus it's no longer in genus Stix, and now it's in genus Aegolius established 1829, and has its original species name funerea, but the Europeans got used to calling it Tengmalm's Owl, so they just stuck with it.
As cute as these little owls are, Aegolius is from the Greek aigōlios meaning "a bird of ill omen" and funerea is from the Latin funereus, meaning "funereal." That's one heck of a dark name for this cutie pie!
The ones in the US and Canada are technically a subspecies Aegolius funerea richardsoni, aka Richardson's Owl, after Canadian naturalist John Richardson.
Probalby from the Dark Ages where everything was like emo but not cool at all ;D
It's only a bad omen to me when I don't get to see one! 🥰
Exactly!