Both of these owls have bested some real fan favorites to get here. BnW defeated the angelic Barn Owl and Mottled Wood really shocked a lot of us by taking out the Spectacled Owl, a favorite to win the tournament coming into it.

Mottled Wood, aka “the fowl of death”, made quite the first impression on a number of you. Nothing else in this tournament looks like it. Wild and intensely colored, this Indian owl becons you to get to know it.

Black and White"s prison outfit makes it a little more familiar, at least for this pair of birds. This owl attracts plenty of followers and has done well so far this year, and in past games.

Which of these tropic-owl birds is going to get the go-ahead from you today?

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I just learned that both of them are called gamarús in Catalan.

    The mottled is the Gamarús ocel•lat and the black and white is Gamarús capnegre (blackhead)

    I heard the name gamarús all my life and I knew it was some kind of owl but I never saw one. From what I’m reading they are mostly the genus Strix.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Yay! More language lessons!

      Gamarussos seem to be smooth headed Strix owls. Tawny, Barred, Rufous, Great Grey, Spectacled, Ural, and more look to all be named Gamarús.

      I see gamarús can be a mild insult like calling someone a dummy?

      • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Hahaha yes there’s that too.

        I kept reading and just learned that in the Balearic Islands is called xibeca. I knew that xibeca was species of owl but not that it was the same one.
        It gives its name to a very popular beer brand and in Catalonia is synonym with a one litre bottle of beer.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          3 months ago

          Oh that is so fun! Everything is tied together here!

          A popular legend says that an owl, called Xibeca in Catalan, cursed a young woman turning her into a witch, and the elongated shadow of this witch gave the idea for the name of the liter beer of the Damm company. An alternative version of the story suggests that the origin of the name could be the similarity between the size of the bottle and the owl.