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Ciameth — Barn Owl different angles ref
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Barn Owl (Tyto alba pratincola) head at different angles. Males of this subspecies typically have the lighter or pure white faces while females tend to have slightly darker coloration, especially around the eyes, but there is large overlap between the sexes; the model for this ref falls in the "between" coloration. The lower row of babies and the juvenile barn owl 4 across on the top row were all brought into the rehabilitation center for various reasons and successfully released. The remainder of the pictures are of the same female, a bird that was kept illegally as a pet, imprinted, and fed an improper diet. She suffered from metabolic bone disease and had multiple fractures in her wings by the time she was finally confiscated and turned over to the rehab center. Since she could not be released, she became an educational presentation bird.Feel free to download for personal use. Not for photo-manipulation.
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Red-tailed Hawk head ref: [link]
Turkey Vulture head ref: [link]
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Comments: 42
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This is so helpful, thank you! I'll be sure to use this!
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These are the most lovely pics ever. <3 I love Barn Owls (well, I love owls in general, but particularily "tyto" owls), and I will definitely use these as refs. Thank you, Cia!
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These photographs are gorgeous W Thank you so much for posting these <3
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> Not for photo-manipulation
As in nothing digital whatsoever?
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Okay, just making sure. I'm not the most savvy with these terms.
Almost thought it meant something along the lines of photo-editing and touchups.
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must've toookena LOT of patients tocapture all those pics!
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Thank you so much for making this. I really love this. I know I'll use this!
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Thanks a lot for taking all the pictures and posting them here.
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Oh, wow. Thank you so much for taking that picture! This will be infinitely useful! These are my favorite type of owl.
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I love the photos of the babies! I find their mostly hairless little faces adorable <3 but then again I love baby crows before they get feathers too.
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SMASHING GOOD WORK HERE! Gives you a real nice idea of the transition of these great birds!
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I fully agree with Mirroreyesserval! WOW! Er.. do you have refs for peregrine falcons?
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No peregrines, but I will eventually be doing one for a smaller falcon, the American Kestrel.
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Ok. Thank you. Those refs are really magnificent!
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These sheets are an incredible refference! I can't thank you enough for posting them.
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Bah I wish someone would do something like this on a Resplendent Quetzal. I can't find any head angles but side on google, and I can't find good hatchling or fledgling pics at all. Its why I haven't done my challenges yet ^^'. But such beautiful pictures of such a beautiful creature! ^^
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These are some really superb references, thank you so much for putting these together! I've been looking for some solid Barn Owl resources lately, so I think it's kind of coincidental (but in the most awesome way!) that you've posted this. Thank you!
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I just wanted to say that the three sheets you've done are AMAZING and are an incredible resource. Thank you so much for sharing these!
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No prob 
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Ooh raptor feet!
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This will be very useful.
She is a fair bit darker and spottier than the local barn owls here (subsp. delicatula), not that I get to see them that often.
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This. This is the most useful thing since the invention of the pencil!! 
She's a gorgeous owl! Her story is so sad, poor girl!
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Oooooooooooooooooooh. Oooooh, this is awesome. Oh thank you for posting this, lord knows, barn owls are a challenge sometimes, and this will be a great help!
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Their heads/necks are difficult for me to draw because the feathers don't really lay flat on that part of the body the way most other bird's do; a hawk is so much easier because you can envision the how the body beneath the feathers looks. Barn owls have a scrawny little neck and vulture-like head underneath what is essentially a floofy tube-sock of feathers (or at least that is how I always end up thinking about it) and an exaggerated disk of really lacy feathers. On the baby five over with the facial disk just coming in, you can see what direction all the feathers will eventually point. I love your barn owl Windsonde character, btw!
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Oh man, isn't that the truth (That's a great way of thinking about it I think!) XD I remember when I was much younger, going to a talk on raptors and being shocked all to pieces when the handler said that the large, wise-looking head on owls was a bit of a misnomer, and then proceded to demonstrate that it was mostly feather-floof by gently sticking her finger into it, to show how deep the feathers were.
I love all of the little baby pictures too by the way... they're so adorably awkward looking when they're little XD
And gosh, thank you! <:} Hopefully we'll see more of Kiya too? (She's so darn pretty!)
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lovely! The baby photos are particularly interesting; You never realize ow long their heads really are when they're covered in fluff!
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