Descriptions of her species read like something out of a superhero comic book:<\/p>\n
Stealthy at night, a piercing gaze, and dramatic in flight. <\/p>\n
Mostly though, Uhu the Eurasian eagle-owl will live on in memory as \u201ca huge, sweet owl,\u201d said Karla Bloem. <\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of people witnessed Uhu catch air and fly during presentations at the International Owl Center in Houston, Minn., where Bloem is executive director.<\/p>\n
Bloem announced Uhu\u2019s death Monday. The owl, among the center\u2019s teaching birds, had severe heart disease. The Raptor Center diagnosed atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, during a regular wellness visit in January. It was a surprise, Bloem said.<\/p>\n
The bird was 13 years old \u2013 young by Eurasian eagle-owl standards. Bloem said the species can live 30 to 40 years.<\/p>\n
The diagnosis arrived at a time when Uhu (pronounced uw-who) already was slowing down, she added. Uhu hadn\u2019t \u201ccome to work\u201d for a few years. \u201cIt\u2019s a disease for old birds, so we\u2019re scratching our heads as to what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eurasian eagle-owls\u2019 habitat spans Europe and Asia, according to the owl center. Uhu was born in captivity and was sent to the center in 2015 from a Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Mass., man who had permits to work with wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descriptions of her species read like something out of a superhero comic book: Stealthy at night, a piercing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-177262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}