{"id":495620,"date":"2026-02-28T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495620\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:48:08","slug":"sleepy-owl-found-resting-among-items-on-a-new-york-antique-store-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495620\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy owl found resting among items on a New York antique store shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DURHAM, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Shoppers in upstate New York earlier this month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: tucked next to a cookie jar made in the shape of a chicken was a live owl resting peacefully on a shelf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Friday that the incident happened on Feb. 21 in the hamlet of East Durham, about 127 miles (204 kilometers) north of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The agency said customers at The Market Place had spotted \u201csomething extremely lifelike\u201d on one of the shelves and alerted store staff.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Environmental conservation police officers arrived to find a brown-and-white owl perched on a shelf with its eyes firmly shut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department said officers gently cradled the sleeping owl to remove it from the store, and then released it into a wooded area, where it flew into a nearby tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bird, an eastern screech owl, is nocturnal and typically nests in tree cavities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is not immediately clear how it got inside the store. An email was sent to the store&#8217;s owners on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURHAM, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Shoppers in upstate New York earlier this month turned up a rare find while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[226725,226724,79,5872,201],"class_list":["post-495620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-cookie-jar","tag-eastern-screech-owl","tag-science","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495620","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=495620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}