\n Bomber, a tawny owl who is at least\u00a018 years old,\u00a0was officially confirmed missing this week by\u00a0Thixendale artist Robert E Fuller – who shares films of the animals in his garden.\n<\/p>\n
\n The owl, who was last seen in September, was a favourite of over two million followers who tuned in to Robert’s livestreams with\u00a0Bomber considered a favourite of the wildlife \u2018stars\u2019 featured.\n<\/p>\n
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\n Bomber, along with his mate Luna, fostered more than 20 chicks and raised 12 of his own young since the first live stream of their nest – but\u00a0Bomber, who had at least two other mates, is believed to have raised further generations of tawny owls in his life.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fans across the USA as well as Peru and Canada have expressed their sadness at Bomber’s disappearance; many described being \u201cheartbroken\u201d, and one fan even shared how her husband had carved Bomber and Luna into their headboard after years of following the owls\u2019 story.\n<\/p>\n
\n This week, Robert confirmed what fans were dreading. He said: “He\u2019s gone missing before, but not for this long. When I noticed Luna with a different male, I knew that if Bomber was still around, he wouldn\u2019t tolerate this.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He leaves quite a legacy and he was well-loved. He got his name from the powerful way he defended his territory, but it was his tender side that won hearts.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He was a good provider and would go on feeding both his own chicks and foster chicks long after they had fledged the nest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bomber, a tawny owl who is at least\u00a018 years old,\u00a0was officially confirmed missing this week by\u00a0Thixendale artist Robert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-301259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}