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You know how you can tell an owl is actually a baby? They don’t have an actual full set of feathers like literally every bird above. (Some of those like the saw-whet-looking one with the thankfully photoshopped hat on could be fledglings, but that basically means they’re about ready to leave the nest, so alllmost adults.) Actual baby owls either look like a weird little naked pink thing (like most other baby naked birds) when they’re first hatched, or when they’re a little older they become angry hissing ill-tempered fluffballs that will probably inhabit your nightmares. They’re like if Jim Henson had a super bad day and decided to get his feelings out with fiber arts.

Here’s what baby owls actually look like when they’re still babies:

Baby burrowing owl, good lord

Baby elf owl, genuinely a very smol. Adults are only like 5 INCHES LONG what even are elf owls, seriously.

Baby pygmy owl, such a tiny fierce killer, likes to be hand-fed by human servants

Baby screech owls, so fluff, such talons

Great Grey Owl with her babies, note the difference between adult majesty with penetrating stare and baby floof with penetrating stare still a work in progress, will be more intimidating with less fuzz

Baby barn owls, they will hiss at you like angry cats and when they’re adults they’ll fly around screaming like the souls of the damned

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