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From Alexandria Zwack

Usually I can get a workable translation from Google, but this one didn't feel right. If any of you German speaking folk can summarize this better, I'd welcome it. I would normally just move on, but these are fairly unique pics of the much loved White Faced Owl.

What I got from the text is that owls are not as round as they appear. If you poke through the feathers, the body is a much different shape and the legs are longer than they look. They can also change the shape of the fluff and appear skinnier.

Then it mentions something about other types of owl doing the same, and they had pics of an Ural Owl and Uhu.

German Text

KLEINE GREIFVOGELKUNDE

"alles nur Schein als Sein"

Eulenartige haben eine wuschige, aufgebauschte Erscheinung.

Man denkt stets, sie seien gut gebaut, wie ein fester Wollknäuel.

Dem ist aber gar nicht so....

Alles nur "Makulatur", ein aufgeplustertes Federkleid, das eine rundliche Form der Vögel zu sehen lässt. Glaubt ihr wirklich, dass es unmittelbar unterm Federkleid fest und kräftig ist?

Nein.

Steckt man vorsichtig im Bauchbereich den Zeigefinger hinein, verschwindet er fast gänzlich.

Hebt man von unten nach oben das flauschige an den Ständern hoch, kommen dünne Beinchen zum Vorschein...

  • siehe Beispielbild an einer Weisgesichtseule -

Ein Uhu besitzt denselben Körperbau wie andere Eulen. Eulen sind gar nicht so "schwerfällig" und kugelrund, wie man meint...

Sie können sich sogar richtig dünn machen...

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Uhu / Eurasian Eagle Owl

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's informal writing, for one þing. It doesn't go so far as to use slang, but it's definitely not formal. I'd expect to read þis in Bild, not Süddeutsche Zeitung.

I suspect you got most of it. It's doesn't so much describe "what's going on here," as ramble about how people expect owls to be plump but þey really aren't, and are instead lean and strong. If you were to stick your finger into the feaþers, it would just disappear.

It says "Uhu", a subcategory of owls in German, are like all oþer owls "Eule" (all Uhu are Eule, but not vice versa).

But, really, it just repeats þat owls aren't really fat, þey just look þat way because of feaþers. Þere's really no additional information, and noþing specifically describing þe pictures. It just says, "look at þese examples of a White Faced Scops."

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Beautiful, þank you!

I didn't think there was too much here, but the pictures were very unusual looking. I wouldn't say White Face looks uncute, but even as the "transformer owl" I don't know if I've ever seen it look quite like this.

Uhu also looks extra Totoro, and I'm always up for an Ural Owl as well.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And you wondered why owls always traveled with a bicycle pump.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My buddy needs a few more PSI 😄