They're so closely related to the Great Horned Owl (native to the US, including New York state) that they might be conspecific (ie, just two different expressions of the same species), and there have been viable hybrids between the two species before.

Eurasian Eagle-Owl and Great Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus) have hybridized before (in zoo populations).

The Great Horned Owl is native to New York, so I would not rule it out.

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It's gruesome. Just to add to yours: It happens in the millions right about NOW this day alone to thousands of children in China. It's so normal now that nobody talks about it. Tibetan and Uighur children are basically every day shipped to "schools" to become real HAN humans. Everything else is garbage in the eyes of the CCP GOD XI.

As example: The New York City zoos are also the organization known as The Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the world leaders in conservation, education and research that works to preserve the animals and habitats of our planet. They also put many millions of dollars into blueprinting enclosure habitats that are entirely fulfilling and enriching to each species particular needs. (even down to species specific neural mapping for stimulus triggers that our human brains might have overlooked from native habitat!)

What many people don’t realize is that enclosures are designed to allow animals to not be on display if they don’t want to be. In the Bronx zoo for example the publicly visible enclosure area for each species is only about 1/3 of the the total enclosure size.

Plus captive breeding programs are safeguarding species populations from disappearing forever.

Vampires have huge respect for owls. 1: they’re nocturnal. 2: they’re predators. And 3: they don’t give a hoot where they dump their scat.

16,000 more war crimes to be exact

Not that your point isn't valid but you literally pick a random card and make it seem like a reason to do something stupid. When stuff you do don't need to make sense logic is no longer a tool, it's an obstacle

It seems that the Russians kind of "borrowed" them, to, you know, keep them safe or something, effectively as prisoners of war or hostages or something and have been putting them through pro-Russian indoctrination of some sort, under the guise of keeping up their education before they send them back. Yes, evil and illegal, but actual state-sanctioned stealing children for adoption would be a whole other level and we have to at least recognise the possibility that "even the Russians" aren't going that far and these children are ostensibly going to be returned, through similar back-channels to those used for PoWs. I'm talking generally here, for sure there's been some shady shit going on with kids since this whole thing began: https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukrainian-families-reunite-children-russia-kidnapped-put-adoption/story?id=93798931. I think we have to realise also that there are multiple different actors and structures in Russia with different agendas, before anyone thinks I am defending Russia in any way, I doubt there is any one single policy, just like they can't even seem to field one single unified army.

This is genocide but no one will say it’s genocide cos then the rest of the world is legally obliged to stop it.

Bruh I wish WEF and Al Gore would stfu about CO2, it’s literally plant food. They should focus on the shit that got released in Ohio, the real threat to the world.

Historically, it's a pretty common way to wipe out a culture/people. Take the children of the unwanted culture and place them in homes of the desired culture to assimilate them and ultimately purge remnants of the unwanted culture. Canada/US/Australia did it to indigenous people, and Soviet Russia did it to a lot of cultural groups. They would also commonly execute local community leaders and replace them with Russians to solidify their hold on the territories they gained.

Russia is just trying to assimilate Ukrainians into Russia and make it really, really difficult to ever disentangle them for generations to come.

You can think they're ugly all you want. If that's your only reason for not liking them you're still foolish.

You'll dislike the look of that land even more when human induced climate change sets it all on fire or drowns it in horrific floods.

They announce this kind of thing for morale. It's important for Ukrainians to know that their government is doing something about the missing children, and has seen a measure of success.

You'll notice that this article is also written in English. Ukraine needs to announce this to an international audience to keep the war in international news and keep international sympathies with Ukraine. News like this is very helpful for them from a foreign policy perspective, so spreading it around without explaining how they saved the kids gets the morale/foreign policy boost without risking their sources.

It's even less renewable than coal and petroleum.

I mean yeah you let the earth sit for a few hundred million years you'll eventually get more carbon based fuels but if you want uranium you gotta blow up some god damned stars.

Do you have any idea how difficult that is?! It's pretty fucking difficult, genius.

Yep, I was/am worried about all the people that fled Russia to avoid conscription. There is a non 0 chance that Russia may use those people in the future as a pretext to invading.

> That’s like a textbook Russians play at this point.

They have always done that, it is a way to destabilize amd justify aggression on surrounding countries.

That owl will eat like a king for the rest of his life!

That's a funny way to say illegally trafficked.

Bubo bubo!

Just be careful not to make a new Kudzu vine!

And human trafficking. Can we call Putin's Russia a criminal enterprise now?

Less uplifting than intended, even though it's a start. Russian government will pay severely, but not nearly fast enough...

You'd think Lockheed or Boeing would be itching to try their new planes out on the Duma.

The Nazis did exactly the same in Poland and elsewhere. Genocide.

For example, all the things I did to OP's mom last night.