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Anonymous
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Speaking as a falconer, owls are pretty dumb birds. Keep in mind, those eyes take up two thirds of their skull. Which is a lot smaller than it looks once you remove their feathers.
However, owls are more than intelligent enough for what they do. And thus it isn't their intelligence level that makes them hard to train, but the fact they're lazy.
Your average owl hunting technique goes like this 'Sit somewhere high. Something moves underneath me. Fall out of tree like a sack of potatoes. Eat it.'
So training them to do anything more, to reliably come to a falconer, to actually chase prey and the like...it's more difficult. Also remember you're working with these birds in daylight, not their natural waking hours. So until they adjust, which some do faster than others, training them is going to be more difficult than training a bird who naturally operates during daylight.
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