National Audubon Society on Instagram: "This week we’re highlighting photographer, cinematographer, and Audubon Photography Awards Honorable Mention awardee Nathan Clark (@nathanclarkwildlife) and his incredible videos of a Great Gray Owl family that he studied for years. In this clip, you’ll see the adults engaged in a courtship ritual. Before nesting, the male and female owls spent several weeks courting and selecting their nesting site for the year. They may use the same nesting site for several years or choose a new spot. During this time, the pair spend a lot of time preening each other and strengthening their bond, often vocalizing."
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51K likes, 403 comments - audubonsociety on November 20, 2025: "This week we’re highlighting photographer, cinematographer, and Audubon Photography Awards Honorable Mention awardee Nathan Clark (@nathanclarkwildlife) and his incredible videos of a Great Gray Owl family that he studied for years. In this clip, you’ll see the adults engaged in a courtship ritual. Before nesting, the male and female owls spent several weeks courting and selecting their nesting site for the year. They may use the same nesting site for several years or choose a new spot. During this time, the pair spend a lot of time preening each other and strengthening their bond, often vocalizing.".

By @nathanclarkwildlife@instagram.com

National Aubudon Societe on Instagram: “This week we’re high lightning photographer, cinematographer and Audubon Photography Awards Honorable Mention awardee Nathan Clark and his incredible videos of a Great Gray Owl family that he studied for years. In this clip, you’ll see the adult engaged in a courtship ritual. Before nesting, the male and the female spent several weeks courting and selecting there nesting site for the year. They may use the same nesting site for several years or choose a new spot. During this time, the pair spend a lot of time preening each other ans strengthening their bond , often vocalizing.”

  • anon6789@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    You had me clicking that play button a few times 😁

    Cute mutual preening between some big, beautiful owls.

    As owls are usually solitary creatures outside of mating season, some think this behavior helps calm down those natural instincts to fight off someone who would otherwise be competition for food or appropriate nesting areas.

    • pseudoOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      A friend send this to me. It was so good I had to share it!

      • anon6789@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        I like seeing their sweet sides as well as the grumpy murder side.

        They can be cuddly when they want to be 🥰

    • pseudoOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Sorry. I don’t even have it. A friend send it to me knowing I love owl and somehow I was able to see it without an account. The vidéo was great so I thought it was worth sharing but I comply get your feeling. If I ever share something from Instagram again, I’ll add a CW (^_^)

        • pseudoOP
          1·
          3 months ago

          I don’t understand what this means so I think it is a bit out of my capacity.

          • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            yt-dlp is a program that downloads videos from various sites.

            catbox.moe can then be used to host the raw file, playable without JS and embeddable.

            A bot could search for new posts with 𝑥 upvotes hosted on a list of “annoying” sites and post a comment with an embedded video rehosted on catbox. However, that is out of my currebt capabilities.

            Example output:

            Rehosted on catbox.moe


            Raw file

            Video by @audubonsociety (National Audubon Society) on Instagram