{"id":144880,"date":"2025-09-15T05:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/144880\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:11:11","slug":"watch-this-adorable-baby-owl-make-a-dramatic-leap-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/144880\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch this adorable baby owl make a dramatic leap for survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/uk-owl-guide-how-to-identify-where-to-see\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">owl<\/a> nests, baby owls will leave the nest one by one to move to nearby trees in a process that\u2019s known as fledging. In this BBC Earth footage, a sibling has already left the nest, leaving two owls remaining \u2013 and we watch them as they prepare to take their terrifying first leap.<\/p>\n<p>An owl\u2019s wingspan will eventually reach 1.5 metres, but currently these owls\u2019 wings are too small and weak to fly. They\u2019re still being fed in the nest by their parents, but this will soon stop \u2013 unless they take the jump.<\/p>\n<p>They totter around the nest, testing their nerve and trying to pluck up the courage to fly. This process can take days, with the owls practising the motion and taking small steps forward. After 24 days, one of the owls takes its clumsy debut flight \u2013 not entirely a success, but an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/muddy-baby-elephants-adorable-tumbling-penguins-and-otter-cuddles-these-cute-baby-animal-videos-will-melt-your-heart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adorable first step<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Baby owl makes the ultimate jump to survive. Credit: BBC Earth<\/p>\n<p>More wildlife stories<\/p>\n<p>Top image credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up in the owl nests, baby owls will leave the nest one by one to move to nearby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-144880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}