North Carolina – Owls in Towels https://owlsintowels.org/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:33:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://owlsintowels.org/content/media/tBNh7to.png North Carolina – Owls in Towels https://owlsintowels.org/ 32 32 El Búhorrito https://owlsintowels.org/el-buhorrito/ https://owlsintowels.org/el-buhorrito/#respond Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0000 https://owlsintowels.org/?p=4821 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 🇺🇸
Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

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

💛🦉

SpeciesCommon NameMore info
Megascops asioEastern Screech OwlWiki link

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

]]> https://owlsintowels.org/el-buhorrito/feed/ 0 Saw-Whet Studies https://owlsintowels.org/saw-whet-studies/ https://owlsintowels.org/saw-whet-studies/#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:00:00 +0000 https://owlsintowels.org/?p=3636 An amber-eyed Saw-Whet Owl is contained in a draw-string pouch with a green and white zigzag pattern. On the table behind and out of focus is a pair of red handles, most likely belonging to a banding tool used for attaching a metal bracelet to the owl's foot. Researchers assign each band a unique code to help study species movements, migration and population estimates, and contribute to conservation efforts. The bands are lightweight and do not impact the owl's natural day-to-day living.

Blue Ridge Audubon recently awarded a grant to study Northern Saw-whet Owl migration in the Appalachian Mountains. Funding will provide researchers with GPS and radio tags to track this secretive forest species.

Photo: SEAN GRAESSER

Original post – 18 Dec 2025
by Blue Ridge Audubon
located in Asheville, North Carolina, US
Website | Instagram | Facebook

Link to donate to Blue Ridge Audubon for those willing and able.

xo owlsintowels

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SpeciesCommon NameMore info
Aegolius acadicusNorthern Saw-whet OwlWiki link
]]> https://owlsintowels.org/saw-whet-studies/feed/ 0 Coda the Eastern Screech Owl https://owlsintowels.org/coda-the-eastern-screech-owl/ Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://owlsintowels.org/?p=1838 In sharp focus is an EASO (Eastern Screech Owl) with spectacularly fluffy rictal bristles i.e. whiskers above the beak, like a feathery moustache. His facial feathers are shades of light and dark grey—ash and charcoal—with a pair of grey-green eyes that match the muted sage green of the towel in which he is wrapped. He is facing the camera directly and held by the hands of a rehabilitator, separated by the green towel. Out of focus in the background top right is a display and electronics. The rest of the background is awash with more green, somewhere between pistachio and turquoise.

Original post – 20 May 2023
by BeWild Reptile Rescue

located in Durham, North Carolina, US 🇺🇸
Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

Original text:

Hopefully this adorable “Hand t-OWL” will brighten your day!

Meet Coda, an Eastern screech owl, from BeWild Reptile Rescue! He came in to see Dr Locke for a well visit yesterday and a was soft, fluffy and nicely folded patient!

Coda was initially transferred to the BeWild facility in Nov 2022, noted then as “feisty and strong”, joining Sonata, another gray-morph Eastern Screech to begin work as ambassadors / educational owls.

Given the “Reptile” component of the clinic’s name, it would seem Coda lacks the features of its typical reptilian guests, but he looks very welcome all the same.

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

xo owlsintowels

💛🦉

SpeciesCommon NameMore info
Megascops asioEastern Screech OwlWiki link
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