In this segment from ONE Central Florida, follow an orphaned baby great horned owl as it is raised by a surrogate mother at the Avian Reconditioning Center in Apopka.
Aria Life is simple until you learn and discover new things The more you learn the more you figure out how to do things the more complicated life gets owls don’t need to worry about living in a society with thousands of other owls they don’t need to pay rent or child support they don’t need to take their babies to school babies are a big investment sometimes people aren’t capable of supporting this investment
I’d keep one of the owls if I were those people since they get raised by the people and are most probably used to the people as the babies grow up. Would make an awesome pet
I WONDER IF THAT'S THE WAY THE VIRGIN MARY GOT JESUS. SOMEBODY LEFT THEIR UNWANTED BABY IN MARY'S HOUSE WHILE SHE WAS ASLEEP. Or did God really have sex with Mary like the Bible says?
@@drServitis Well, there is the theory that because Jesus was apparently a virgin birth, that he was born with XX chromosomes, making him born female. Basically what I'm saying is, Jesus is a trans icon 😉
When I was a teenager, my brother brought home a great horned owl he found injured from an encounter with a skunk. We cared for and rehabbed Hootie and it is one of my fondest memories...a very intelligent and majestic animal.
💔🦉 Sweet Gulliver died in 2019 at 33 years-old. No telling how many baby owls she helped raise after this video was posted. The memorial page on their website is beautiful. They've helped so many birds. Fly high, Gulliver. 🌎🍃🦋🌳🦉🔭🌙✨💙🙏
My goodness, this is so awesome! The fact that you took him back because you recognized that he wasn't ready. That is true dedication. Thank you 4 helping out these animals. What would they do without your help.
True dedication would be not to throw them out some cartons amidst some meadow in the woods with power lines over it, as long as they have still downs on their heads. Way better would be a aviary on that meadow, where they can live for two or three more weeks, to adapt to the habitat and get some more flying and other abilities before they got released... Those people do great work without a doubt, but a little more oriented at the situation of free fledged owlets and a little more well thought wouldn't not be bad. For one example: Owls that young doesn't stand the slightest chance against hawks or territorial great horned owls. They 're still clumsy juveniles, depending on the care of their parents for a couple more weeks, normally. Nobody would come to the idea to abandon a 13 or 14 year- old boy in the wild to master his own life from then on, still green behind the ears, in an environment full of natural dangers. That's what they do with the owlets, which are in the same growth stage, or equivalent in age...
@@Navarre751 Thank God, someone else gets it that these folks wrote their own heroism script to spotlight their "caring" owl sanctuary. The owls didn't. Please see my comment thread RE: the crippled egg-slave breeder mom, deprived of her natural, lifelong, mate-companion, suffering empty nest syndrome alone a dozen times a year...for all we know, shut in that sunless coup the whole time.
@@barbarakiley1465 - Do you think owls need sunlight? They are nocturnal. They sleep during the day and hunt during the night and that's the time they have the most fun. Humans are so often thinking of animals as pets but these owls need to be raised where the end result is them being feral and not pets. They are raised in this way to imitate nature and we all know how nature is a cruel place. You have to think naturally, not domestically and maybe one day, you'll see the truth.
@@SnorrioK What I think is she could be allowed to go to the transition pen. It's not about time of day, necessarily. It's about not being free. It's about not being sentenced to solitary confinement. It's about motherly love not being separated from her brood. She could be rightly called Sisyphus Owl in her "punishment. Yet she's a saint.
@@barbarakiley1465 - Motherly? You know that birds don't have that in their vocabulary, right? These are wild animals that have an imprinted set of rules on how to operate when it comes to multiplying themselves. They aren't mammals, they are almost reptilian still since birds are still closely related to the dinosaurs, with chicken being the closest species genetically, they don't have motherly feelings. This reminds me of a scientist who went to the Antarctic to research penguins but he wouldn't, no matter what, release his findings. Not until long after his death were the notes recovered and to everyone's surprise, the scientist had hidden his research because there were so many documented instances of the birds trying procreating with others of their kind, except as corpses. This discovery was so profound to this gentleman that he sat on them for half a century, ashamed. But he shouldn't have been. They are birds, not mammals. Here is some reading material; www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic
What a wonderful job these ladies are doing! It warms the heart. Anyone helping nature is a star in my eyes! Thank you so much for the video. It sure put a smile on my face! 🌞 I see now this was years ago (lol). Well, I hope they're well and still making baby owls well❣
Obviously this video is a bite dated, however, I just came across it. This is absolutely wonderful how you take care of the Horned Owls. I love Owls and adore their faces. When I lived in Colorado Springs there was a Hoot Owl up in the trees in out back yard. I just let it live there because I loved to hear it in the evening. You people are great! Thanks for looking out for them.
The great horned owl is such a beautiful creature and all owls are wonderful creatures and they play a vital role in ecosystems helping to keep nature in balance.
So sweet. It's kind of like this woman was the mom to the human-bonded owl, and then helped the owl connect to mother nature by giving her owlets to interact with, while these owlets get a new chance at life to become real wild owls, and maybe be owl mom's themselves one day. This is an incredible story and Great Horned's are my favorite owl and bird ❤️
These people have great hearts. Just amazing the things they do. Thank you...LOOK AT THOSE CLAWS!!! Wow!! What a BEAUTIFUL animal. Mother Nature is AMAZING
@nickys34 wow, you came here to a video about an American Great Horned Owl raising chicks, and somehow managed to fit "Wuhan" and "filthy liberals" and "crazy cat ladies" in? GFC. No wonder American will never be great again.
I had a 3rd floor apartment a few years ago, and these guys would always be landing on the branches outside my bedroom window with their kills. Very cool birds
Very well put together video, showing a valuable service, dedicated people, and a super owl mom. Watching this during the COVID epidemic, it really brightened my day.
All owls are cool and caring moms, but this one is one of the coolest. At 1:43, owlet's expression while and after swallowing the whole rodent is so cute.
Thank you my GOD for being so wonderful as well as all creatures, owls are also beautiful and one of the most perfect wonderful creations of the Lord 🙏🏻🙌🏻🥰😘😍❤️🤗🦉🦉
Though this is an old comment, I think it's something others would wonder too. My guess would be that when she was first brought in (likely as an owlet herself, given that they mentioned she'd been doing this for over thirteen years) she may not have been strong enough or healthy enough that they felt it was safe for her to go back out. She may have even been a rescue from perhaps a disreputable person who either had her in one of those awful zoos that aren't or even as a "pet" so she never would fully have a chance in the wild. Hard to say. I would suggest perhaps going to their site (if they have one) and seeing if they say what her history is.
@@kstormgeistgem461 that's a lot of probably there. This is just an owl being used. Imagine being restrained to have care. The owl doesn't understand. Yet it happens over and over. Then the trama of her egg being removed each time. Totally unecessary.
@@idadelucia7779 I've had birds my whole life, and as long as you replace the egg with a chick there's no trauma involved; we've had several hens raise chicks like that. And since the owl is unable to survive in the wild, letting her raise chicks in a semi-natural environment is the nicest thing they can do. Better than releasing her and letting her die of starvation or be eaten by something else.
Gulliver cant fly. Gulliver was rescued in 1986 with a broken wing when she fell out of her nest. She was rescued by ARC but couldnt be released back into the wild since she had imprinted on humans. She has since helped raise over 200 owlets.
While it's a bit of a bummer the Mama won't get to be off in the wild, she's got a pretty good life still. Plenty of food, and plenty of babies getting a 2nd chance because of her.
"I have an egg. my egg." a second later, "Oh, I have a baby. my baby." lol
Analytical thinking, alas, isn't these guys' strong suit. :P
Aria Human life is a bit more complicated
Aria Life is simple until you learn and discover new things The more you learn the more you figure out how to do things the more complicated life gets owls don’t need to worry about living in a society with thousands of other owls they don’t need to pay rent or child support they don’t need to take their babies to school babies are a big investment sometimes people aren’t capable of supporting this investment
Aria Which is why humans can’t be more except of babies if you’re not able to take care of a baby you’ll screw over the babies Life and your own
The owl raises owlets better than humans raise babies .
No cell phones and no microwave ovens to further increase human laziness .
I like how the lady understood the owl wasn’t ready to be released yet...he just needed a little more time ☺️
His face was priceless 😂
I tried the same trick with my mum 😂.
Yes! 'Failure to launch." 🥴
What a great thing they're doing for those animals.
I’d keep one of the owls if I were those people since they get raised by the people and are most probably used to the people as the babies grow up. Would make an awesome pet
"...oh! I got a baby!" haha
BOOOM.... "the fuck" a baby!
Not fuckngb funy
Owl mom must think she is the virgin Mary of Owls.
I WONDER IF THAT'S THE WAY THE VIRGIN MARY GOT JESUS.
SOMEBODY LEFT THEIR UNWANTED BABY IN MARY'S HOUSE WHILE SHE WAS ASLEEP. Or did God really have sex with Mary like the Bible says?
In Florida that's not difficult.
@@drServitis Nigga, why do you thi k she's called **The Virgin** Mary, she never had wex to conceive thats the miracle
@@drServitis Well, there is the theory that because Jesus was apparently a virgin birth, that he was born with XX chromosomes, making him born female. Basically what I'm saying is, Jesus is a trans icon 😉
drServitis the Bible doesn’t say that God had sex with Mary .. hence the name , “ Virgin Mary”
When I was a teenager, my brother brought home a great horned owl he found injured from an encounter with a skunk. We cared for and rehabbed Hootie and it is one of my fondest memories...a very intelligent and majestic animal.
This woman is also a great mother herself ❤️👍🏼
💔🦉 Sweet Gulliver died in 2019 at 33 years-old. No telling how many baby owls she helped raise after this video was posted.
The memorial page on their website is beautiful. They've helped so many birds.
Fly high, Gulliver.
🌎🍃🦋🌳🦉🔭🌙✨💙🙏
I love owls and their cute derpy faces
(OvO) intensifies
Check out RUclips channel Yoll (close to a million subscribers). It is fascinating to watch a huge owl living in an apartment.
ruclips.net/channel/UCdzldOJNsIHOXXIEzfKRxEw
What a sweet mommy.
2degucitas yes you're absolutely right
What an incredible owl mum and the owlets are sooo fluffy and cute.
My goodness, this is so awesome! The fact that you took him back because you recognized that he wasn't ready. That is true dedication. Thank you 4 helping out these animals. What would they do without your help.
True dedication would be not to throw them out some cartons amidst some meadow in the woods with power lines over it, as long as they have still downs on their heads. Way better would be a aviary on that meadow, where they can live for two or three more weeks, to adapt to the habitat and get some more flying and other abilities before they got released... Those people do great work without a doubt, but a little more oriented at the situation of free fledged owlets and a little more well thought wouldn't not be bad. For one example: Owls that young doesn't stand the slightest chance against hawks or territorial great horned owls. They 're still clumsy juveniles, depending on the care of their parents for a couple more weeks, normally. Nobody would come to the idea to abandon a 13 or 14 year- old boy in the wild to master his own life from then on, still green behind the ears, in an environment full of natural dangers. That's what they do with the owlets, which are in the same growth stage, or equivalent in age...
@@Navarre751 Thank God, someone else gets it that these folks wrote their own heroism script to spotlight their "caring" owl sanctuary. The owls didn't. Please see my comment thread RE: the crippled egg-slave breeder mom, deprived of her natural, lifelong, mate-companion, suffering empty nest syndrome alone a dozen times a year...for all we know, shut in that sunless coup the whole time.
@@barbarakiley1465 - Do you think owls need sunlight?
They are nocturnal. They sleep during the day and hunt during the night and that's the time they have the most fun.
Humans are so often thinking of animals as pets but these owls need to be raised where the end result is them being feral and not pets. They are raised in this way to imitate nature and we all know how nature is a cruel place.
You have to think naturally, not domestically and maybe one day, you'll see the truth.
@@SnorrioK What I think is she could be allowed to go to the transition pen. It's not about time of day, necessarily. It's about not being free. It's about not being sentenced to solitary confinement. It's about motherly love not being separated from her brood. She could be rightly called Sisyphus Owl in her "punishment. Yet she's a saint.
@@barbarakiley1465 - Motherly? You know that birds don't have that in their vocabulary, right? These are wild animals that have an imprinted set of rules on how to operate when it comes to multiplying themselves. They aren't mammals, they are almost reptilian still since birds are still closely related to the dinosaurs, with chicken being the closest species genetically, they don't have motherly feelings.
This reminds me of a scientist who went to the Antarctic to research penguins but he wouldn't, no matter what, release his findings. Not until long after his death were the notes recovered and to everyone's surprise, the scientist had hidden his research because there were so many documented instances of the birds trying procreating with others of their kind, except as corpses. This discovery was so profound to this gentleman that he sat on them for half a century, ashamed. But he shouldn't have been. They are birds, not mammals.
Here is some reading material; www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic
As a fan of owls, this is one of the most wonderful things I've seen.
ruclips.net/channel/UCdzldOJNsIHOXXIEzfKRxEw
What an awesome owl mom.
Egg to baby in 5 seconds... A Hollywood birth... lol
Those eyes are amazing
What a wonderful job these ladies are doing! It warms the heart. Anyone helping nature is a star in my eyes!
Thank you so much for the video. It sure put a smile on my face! 🌞
I see now this was years ago (lol). Well, I hope they're well and still making baby owls well❣
Thank you so much!
The Owl saying. WHAT???? YOU'RE DESERTING US?????
Obviously this video is a bite dated, however, I just came across it. This is absolutely wonderful how you take care of the Horned Owls. I love Owls and adore their faces. When I lived in Colorado Springs there was a Hoot Owl up in the trees in out back yard. I just let it live there because I loved to hear it in the evening. You people are great! Thanks for looking out for them.
3:49 The owl fell on its butt. 😂
Happy Mother's Day, Super Mom!! 💖
The work that wildlife rehabbed do is underappreciated. Amazing folks.
❤❤
The great horned owl is such a beautiful creature and all owls are wonderful creatures and they play a vital role in ecosystems helping to keep nature in balance.
LOL baby owl #2 failed the semester. 3:59 THE MOST MAJESTIC AND GRACEFUL OWL-RELEASE EVER.
So sweet. It's kind of like this woman was the mom to the human-bonded owl, and then helped the owl connect to mother nature by giving her owlets to interact with, while these owlets get a new chance at life to become real wild owls, and maybe be owl mom's themselves one day. This is an incredible story and Great Horned's are my favorite owl and bird ❤️
I am speechless! What great work the humans and Gulliver do!
I'm in love!!!🦉🦉🦉
Wow! what majestic birds!
Just love these owls! Babies so tiny fluffy and fat! 😍 Mom is so beautifully marked! 😍
She's such a good Mama
The caretaker is such a sweetheart and good humour.
How heartwarming... just wonderful to see!
These people have great hearts. Just amazing the things they do. Thank you...LOOK AT THOSE CLAWS!!! Wow!! What a BEAUTIFUL animal. Mother Nature is AMAZING
@nickys34 wow, you came here to a video about an American Great Horned Owl raising chicks, and somehow managed to fit "Wuhan" and "filthy liberals" and "crazy cat ladies" in? GFC. No wonder American will never be great again.
Amazing owl mom. That lady is doing incredible work 🦉👍❤️👏
this is so beyond precious 💕💕💞
Aww that last wee one didn't want to go. Hope he made it in the wild. 😊🦉💓
I had a 3rd floor apartment a few years ago, and these guys would always be landing on the branches outside my bedroom window with their kills. Very cool birds
hope they cleaned the table after their meals.
Omg that look when she dropped him out of the box. Hehe. Thank you for sharing
Baby owl didn't want to leave home, they have the best lollipops.
Wonderful job...need everyone to love and conserve nature 👍
Very well put together video, showing a valuable service, dedicated people, and a super owl mom. Watching this during the COVID epidemic, it really brightened my day.
Owls are amazing
Their expressions are adorable . So glad to see you taking such good care or them. Thank you .
All owls are cool and caring moms, but this one is one of the coolest. At 1:43, owlet's expression while and after swallowing the whole rodent is so cute.
Gulliver should get the Mother of the Year Award!
Gulliver is amazing! And omg the baby at the end that wasn’t ready yet lol
I like the cute little knocking noise they make with their beaks.
That’s their protect/defense instinct.
@@txmetalhead82xk oh, my bad.
I love 🦉!! We have some barred owls in the woods behind our house. I love seeing them in the evening when they are out to hunt.
3:55 Omg a pair of turkey-cats. Adorable.
I admire your amazing work.
3:08 all those owlets handing out - too cute!
ruclips.net/channel/UCdzldOJNsIHOXXIEzfKRxEw
he must be taken to university once more, sometimes kids won't make it in the first time 😆😅
damn even at a young age those talons are no joke.
I love owl's of all specie's. Thank you ever so much for sharing.
What a great job
wow thank you for your organization for this.. it's doing great..
Look at those owls faces 😂😂😂😂😂😂 so funny
Unbelievable. Very well done.
Mother of the Year, Every year it is hard to compete with that!!!
what a beautiful bird
Thank god for people like you.
What an incredible place :)
Owl released flies 30 feet makes a u-turn gives her a look -- she says: I guess it's not ready ... we'll bring it back for a few more weeks
Supermom for sure. Raising 14 owlets!
My house is in Lake County; I was wondering Why I was getting So Many Owls in my Attic !
Great Story , I enjoyed seeing the Beautiful Birds... Thanks for your love....
This made me so happy.
this is important because birds can be imprinted easily due to their short infancy and fast growth
I love this video
Fantastic video, well done folks
That's a big baby !
I love what you're doing for these magnificent predators.
Wonderful endeavor. Congratulations.
Thank you my GOD for being so wonderful as well as all creatures, owls are also beautiful and one of the most perfect wonderful creations of the Lord 🙏🏻🙌🏻🥰😘😍❤️🤗🦉🦉
Our beautiful garden home needs triage.
🌎🍃🦋🌳🦉🔭🌙✨💙🙏
This is incredible!! Great work to all of you and super momma!!!!
This place is right down the road from me! Really amazing program they have there.
Owl mama and a owl baby bonding with each other which is good
So beautiful!!!!
awesome cooperation the owls hav with their human.Thank you 4hlping the GHOwls in Florida
❤️ Wonderful family 🦉 🐤🐥🐤🐥🐥🐥🐤🐤🐤🐥🐥🐥 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
These people are so nice!
Very Impressive. Great Job Gals!!!!
Well, now I know why Longclaw was so protective of Sonic.
Great work, ladies.
Thank God for all we have
Lady:Off you go
Owl:I don’t run I fight
Well done, both you and Mom
Even doe this is just a RUclips video I can tell that the woman in this video is a sweet heart
Aww, I'm kinda sad for Gulliver, though. Can she not be released into the wild?
Though this is an old comment, I think it's something others would wonder too.
My guess would be that when she was first brought in (likely as an owlet herself, given that they mentioned she'd been doing this for over thirteen years) she may not have been strong enough or healthy enough that they felt it was safe for her to go back out. She may have even been a rescue from perhaps a disreputable person who either had her in one of those awful zoos that aren't or even as a "pet" so she never would fully have a chance in the wild.
Hard to say. I would suggest perhaps going to their site (if they have one) and seeing if they say what her history is.
@@kstormgeistgem461 that's a lot of probably there.
This is just an owl being used. Imagine being restrained to have care. The owl doesn't understand. Yet it happens over and over.
Then the trama of her egg being removed each time.
Totally unecessary.
According to the website, Gulliver broke her wing when she fell from the nest as an owlet. It was surgically repaired, but permanent damage resulted.
@@idadelucia7779 I've had birds my whole life, and as long as you replace the egg with a chick there's no trauma involved; we've had several hens raise chicks like that. And since the owl is unable to survive in the wild, letting her raise chicks in a semi-natural environment is the nicest thing they can do. Better than releasing her and letting her die of starvation or be eaten by something else.
Gulliver cant fly. Gulliver was rescued in 1986 with a broken wing when she fell out of her nest. She was rescued by ARC but couldnt be released back into the wild since she had imprinted on humans. She has since helped raise over 200 owlets.
They are sooo cute..
I love this so much!!
3:54
Woman: "off you go"
*owl falls out of box*
Owl: "ayo wtf"
Soooo cute
Cute owlets
salute to you guys
I just love your job guys
Good idea, super mom and a beautiful video.👍👍👍😀
While it's a bit of a bummer the Mama won't get to be off in the wild, she's got a pretty good life still. Plenty of food, and plenty of babies getting a 2nd chance because of her.
that owl failed their final exam, good thing they can try again in the owl university.
2:40 momma owl go egg mode
You r doing great job, thank you