Superb owls, you say? This is the Ruru, or Morepork (famously associated with the Anhk, because they're all goth girls)

Often heard, seldom seen, mystery goth girls, noisy but shy.🥰

Those are indeed superb owls. But don't forget the Taylor Swift...

Had this guy since memory began. Now many decades later.

cool

It just somehow never occurred to me they were real birds! Thank you for enlightening me.

❤️ Perfect, perpetually shocked and affronted, the soundtrack to my evenings here in Pōneke. 11/10 no notes.