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an eastern screech-owl vocalizing in North Carolina
February 7, 2016

Birdcall

While at a fund-raiser at the Carolina Raptor Center in North Carolina, Your Shot member Matt Cuda snapped this dramatic photo of an apparently outspoken eastern screech-owl. "It was vocalizing and possibly working on its breakfast," he writes. "The [center] takes in wild birds that were injured, rehabilitates them, and then releases them back into the wild."

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Photograph by Matt Cuda, National Geographic Your Shot

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