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Coda the Owl is wrapped in a plain white hand towel. Owing (mostly) to the wrap, he is oval shaped and nearly a borb (where borb = bird orb). He's much like the Owls in Towels logo but with desaturated plumage and cat-like ear tufts. His feather are the "gray-morph" variant of Eastern Screech Owls, peppered and bridled with black texturing that looks like granite rocks or tree bark. He has short ashy-white rictal bristles and longer black "whisker" feathers about his long and thin pale beak that hooks over the towel edge. A handler has him in their palms the way one might hold a new-born. He has anime-eyes: a pair of slate-grey peepers looking up at the humans with an expression of innocence and trust.

4th of Owltober!

Original post – 22 Aug 2025
by BeWild Reptile Rescue

located in Durham, North Carolina, US 🇺🇸
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This is Coda the Eastern Screech Owl, an educational / ambassador owl, pictured shortly before getting his beak trimmed with the help of summer interns. BeWild posted a note of thanks to the interns for their months of work, adding:

We spent a day working with Coda the screech owl, which included a physical exam, new anklets and jesses*, and a beak trim. We know they will do great things!

*Jesses = thin leather straps that allow BeWild to take the owls out safely for public education.

Coda was initially transferred to the BeWild facility in Nov 2022, noted then as “feisty and strong”, joining Sonata, another gray-morph Eastern Screech Owl for ambassadorial work.

In another post BeWild explained:

Coda was injured in the wild and has a radius/ulna malunion on his right wing. While he can’t fly very well, he can hop a few feet and uses a ladder to get up to his higher perches!

Link to donate to BeWild Reptile Rescue for those willing and able.

xo owlsintowels

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SpeciesCommon NameMore info
Megascops asioEastern Screech OwlWiki link

P.S. This is Coda’s 2nd appearance with Owls in Towels – his first is here.

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