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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Powerful Owlet in a suburban Brisbane park this morning. Surprisingly for daytime, it was trilling constantly. But then we saw one of its parents having a Brushtail lunch nearby in the same tree, and the Owlet joined it a few minutes later. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new Powerful Owl pair! We had found the female in January at a new site. We'd seen and heard her a few times since, but only her, so we'd begun to think she was on her own. But last night we saw them fly out together, and today we found them roosting next to each other. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Powerful Owlet sketch. I need to get back into the habit of regularly drawing again. Every drawing is practice for the next.

Brush pen sketch of a Powerful Owlet clinging to a branch

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The floof is beginning to be replaced by chevons (heart/bat pattern) on the front of this Powerful Owlet. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

B&W photo of Powerful Owlet on a branch with chevron heart/bat patterning coming through on its front

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This Powerful Owl hadn't been checked on since early May. But there was no trilling in the area at dusk, so the pair appears not to have nested this year. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owl sitting on a branch peering at the viewer.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Powerful Owlet from a few dusks ago. It's interesting how quickly they switch from being slightly alarmed and surprised by everything when they first come out of the hollow. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Floofy Powerful Owlet on a branch looking mildly curious and slightly skeptical.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are Tawny Frogmouths nesting on my street! Here's the male on the nest this afternoon. The males usually do the egg sitting during the day. This is going to be fun to watch, Frogmouths chicks are such muppets. #NotAnOwl #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Male Tawny Frogmouth sitting on his nest.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Powerful Owlet stretching its wings. Even its sibling seems surprised. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Floofy Powerful Owlet stretching its wings wide as its startled sibling looks on

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another of the warm Powerful Owlet from 2 days ago. We checked on it yesterday and it was fine. It was roosting about 50m away in a tree with its sibling, and one of its parents was in the next tree. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not too sure what this Powerful Owlet was up to yesterday. But it may have been trying to cool itself down. 33C was a ridiculous temperature for the 4th day of spring in Brisbane. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet hunched over a branch with its wings partially spread

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the parents of the Powerful Owlet was roosting a few metres away in another tree. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Adult Powerful Owl sitting on a thick branch

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful Owlet in a suburban Brisbane park this morning. I couldn't see its sibling, but hopefully it was just tucked away nearby. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Floofy white Powerful Owlet with piercing yellow eyes staring at the viewer

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Powerful Owlet holding a piece of bark. In 5 years of monitoring Powerful Owls we've never seen one holding a non-prey item before. Weird. Sometimes in the evening you'll see the Owlets practicing attacking branches and vines, sometimes even flying with them, but not this. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

White floofy Powerful Owlet sitting on a branch clutching a chunk of bark.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Powerful Owlet this morning in a suburban Brisbane park. This is one of a new family of Powerful Owls we found almost 3 weeks ago for the first time. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

White floofy Powerful Owlet looking slightly started peering from behind leaves.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The newly-fledged Powerful Owlet sleeping in the rain this morning. It was in the next tree to the hollow tree and about 20m up, so its flying must be OK. They have very short tails at this age which we speculate make steering a bit tricky. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Very floofy Powerful owl asleep on a branch and looking slightly damp.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Powerful Owlet in a Brisbane park last night leaving the hollow it hatched in and taking its first hop fly. You can hear its mama bleating to the Owlet as she watches on from nearby. It'll not return to the hollow. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A new Powerful Owlet looking out of a previously unknown nest hollow. And then as I was watching the Owlet and its parents, fireflies began surrounding me and the nest tree. A good night out.

A dark and grainy photo after sunset of a Powerful Owlet peeking out of its hollow.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm really looking forward to doing Powerful Owl pellet analysis with @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social and Andrew Dinwoodie from @birdlifeoz.bsky.social with the Grade 5s from Tamborine Mountain College tomorrow. They get so excited when they find a possum jaw or a bat claw in their pellet.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It is astonishing how quickly when out of the hollow the Owlets switch from a look of slightly overwhelmed worry to one of very centred intentness. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet perched on a branch surrounded by seed pods looking intently over its wing at the viewer

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Papa of the Powerful Owlet asleep about 3m away. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Male Powerful Owl perched on a branch with its back to the viewer.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Powerful Owlet looking like it was thinking about fledging two nights before. It waited one more night. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet stretching its wings on the edge of its hollow.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Powerful Owlet on its 1st day in the sun having fledged from the hollow the previous night. In the evening the adult female went to the hollow & came out with a Ringtail Possum tail. This is super interesting as we're not aware of Powerful Owls being known to cache food in the hollow. #birds #wildoz

Floofy Powerful Owlet amongst the foliage in a bush.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A new Powerful Owlet! 2 weeks ago at this location, there had been one Owlet, but there must have been another one hiding in the tree hollow as today there were 2. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet looking very floofy and white.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Checking on the Powerful Owlet that fledged on the 4th of July ("Jefferson", also showed interest in airplanes) it was the classic "that's some really good scat on the ground", looks up, "Oh." #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Floofed up Powerful Owlet staring down at the photographer under it.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A new Powerful Owl family! About 4 years ago, a friend mentioned her friend had heard a Powerful Owl from her house. These proved very elusive over the years, and we'd pretty much given up on them thinking that they had perhaps been hunting and didn't live there ... #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Floofy white Powerful Owlet sitting on a branch looking slightly startled.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Powerful Owlet in a Brisbane park this morning. The family of 4 POwls were all in the same tree still quite close to the nest hollow, but it's quite a busy park so each breeding season the adults move the new Owlets to a quieter bit of bush nearby. That hasn't happened yet. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Young white and floofy Powerful Owlet sitting on a branch looking towards the viewer.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Male Powerful Owl asleep at dusk yesterday. He and his partner have an Owlet in a nearby hollow that should emerge in the next week or so. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Powerful Owl pair in suburban Brisbane this morning, female with a Ringtail. Though the female went into the tree hollow for almost 2 weeks, breeding didn't work out. Hopefully they have better luck next year. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Female Powerful Owl on a branch holding 1/2 a Ringtail Possum

Male and female Powerful Owls sitting on branches

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A new Powerful Owlet yesterday that fledged out of the hollow the previous night! It was roosting in the same tree as its parents (the brown blur to the left is its mama). This seems to be a very successful Powerful Owl pair, making two new Owlets every year like clockwork. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Very white and floofy Powerful Owl chick sitting on a branch looking at the viewer.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A new Powerful Owlet! This was from a newly-found-this-year pair & nest hollow. Its floofy front seems quite brown ... not sure if it's an unusual morph or bathing in brackish water. From the feather development it looks like it may have been out of the hollow for a while #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

When you find a lot of whitewash on the ground, always look up. The Powerful Owlets mama was in the next creek down the gully. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Checking in today on the Powerful Owlet that fledged from the hollow on 4th July it seemed to be doing well and was high up in a gum tree about 6m away from its mama. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet looking very floofy and slightly startled while sitting on a branch.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The Powerful Owlet last night in the hollow tree as it was fledging, leaving the hollow it hatched in forever. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The mama of the newly-fledged Powerful Owlet was in the next tree and had dinner ready for later. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

First Powerful Owlet of the season!!!! By far the earliest we've ever seen, by about 3 weeks. We actually saw it fledge last night, but didn't realise it. It was about 40m from the hollow and about 15m up, so it must be quite a good flier already. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It should not be 20C at 9pm in Brisbane in Winter. It's no wonder the owls are confused about breeding season.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This evening, well after sunset, @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social and I saw the first Powerful Owlet of the season! Usually they don't peak out of the hollow until late July.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tonight @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social and I will be talking about Powerful Owl rescues/releases we've helped with, and what we've learned over 5 years of almost daily Powerful Owl observations. Birds Queensland, 7.30pm at Merthyr Road Uniting Church, New Farm. All welcome.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On Thursday evening, @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social and I will be presenting at the Birds Queensland meeting in New Farm, Brisbane. Find out what we've learned making some 2000 observations of Powerful Owls in Brisbane. There will be lots of photos and stories. Come ask your POwl questions!

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Male Powerful Owl with his bat this morning. He and his partner still seem to be trying to nest, though it's very late in the season. Last night they were mating, and he sat on the edge of the hollow "purring" and hooing for 5 minutes while his partner looked on. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Male Powerful Owl at dusk yesterday. At sunset the female called from about 100m away and they then met up and shared the Ringtail. Being 6 weeks late, we'd given up on them nesting this season, but the male then went to the hollow and was "purring" on the edge ... #brisbane #wildoz #birds

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This pair of Powerful Owls appear to have abandoned nesting, dammit. The female had been in the hollow for a couple of weeks, but now they've returned to their non-breeding roost area. You can see a well-developed brood patch on her front. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The first Powerful Owlet of the season! When @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social and I first heard the Owlet trilling from the hollow we were so not expecting it we thought "What's that sound that sounds like an Owlet trilling?". It'll likely be another month and a half before it comes out of the hollow.

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