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Great Horned Owl head at different angles. These are all the same bird except for two in the middle: the angry, puffed up owl 3 across and 5 down, and the picture of the chick right beneath him. The main model is a permanent resident at a raptor rehabilitation center. His ear tufts are down in the majority of these images because they typically only go up when he is alarmed or upset. This guy is a patient, tolerant bird on the glove (he is frequently used to train inexperienced volunteers how to jess and handle a raptor for the first time), but there is one thing that never fails to immediately perk those ear tufts up: children. The other five Great-Horned Owls who live together at the center also appear to hate children (even well-behaved, quiet groups of children) and it is somewhat amusing to see all ear tufts raise simultaneously when a school tour group arrives.Feel free to download for personal use. Not for photo-manipulation.
Red-tailed Hawk Ref: [link]
Barn Owl Ref: [link]
Burrowing Owl: [link]
Turkey Vulture: [link]
Golden Eagle: [link]
American Kestrel: [link]
Icterid (Brewer's Blackbird): [link]
Raptor Foot Ref: [link]
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Heheh, I love the middle row/3rd from the left picture. Looks like an owl's version of "WHAZZUP?!"
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the fourth one from the left in the last row is my favorite :3
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Are you planning to draw some Great-horns?
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I'll try, but I simply can't get the ear tufts right! Its also the eyes. THEY DRIVE ME MAD.
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I didn't know their ear tufts could move! Cool!
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This is really cool. Thanks for making the ref sheet. Funny how so many of the faces have a "GTFO" attitude to them.
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What a wonderful reference! This will be very helpful.
Do you think you would ever make one for magpies?
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I don't work with any magpies, so I would have to spend A LOT of time just sitting outside taking pictures of magpies, which would be fun but... I just don't have that much free time. There will be more raptors though!
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Ah, okay. It really would take forever to make a head angle ref of a wild bird. Thank you for replying.
Yay! More raptors.
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Lol, some awesome expressions here... he is so srsface
O v o
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Another completely amazing reference sheet. Thank you so much!
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Oh wow, this is great! Thank you so much for sharing all of this wonderful stuff!
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These are extremely useful - A ton of thank-you for uploading <3
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Awesome ref! Thanks for posting it!
Haha, how cute. I love owls with ear tufts, they're so expressive.
Not that the bald ones aren't... but the tufts are just cute.
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We actually had a "bald" Great-horned owl. Got his head caught in barbed wire, and ended up looking like Harvey Dent/Two-Face, with nothing but mangled feathers and scar tissue covering half his head. Poor guy. He definitely wasn't cute. But yeah, I know what you mean--even the owls (naturally) without tufts are very appealing. Like this little Saw-Whet Owl from the same center: [link]
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Oh goodness. Saw-whets are definitely my favorite kind of owl. They are just so precious.
Poor thing! That must have been horrible for him. I hope he had a long life.
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