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Dublin: 12 °C Wednesday 19 June, 2013

It’s Friday so here’s a slideshow of owls from around the world

How can you turn down those eyes? HOW?

Rescued! This one-month old was brought to Managua's national zoo after falling from its nest at a construction site.
Rescued! This one-month old was brought to Managua's national zoo after falling from its nest at a construction site.
Image: Esteban Felix/AP/Press Association Images

FORGIVE OUR TARDINESS today but, without blowing our own trumpets too much, this Friday slideshow is one that was worth waiting for.

Inspired by a recent Hula Hoops in coffee owl picture that has gone viral and this Tumblr of Hungover Owls (yes, that’s a thing), we decided to check out the creatures for ourselves.

The result was a lot of clapping of hands to mouths to stop the embarrassing squawks of delight. The lads and ladies at TheScore.ie desk didn’t know where to look.

So, maybe it’s best that most of you will have left the office by now. Feedback and suggestions for future slideshows are welcome in the comments section. Inspiration isn’t always as forthcoming as it was today.

It’s Friday so here’s a slideshow of owls from around the world
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  • Squissssssssshhhhhhh

    Tawny owl chicks are measured, tagged and weighed as part of a 30-year conservation program to increase their population in Kielder forest.
  • Bird!

    A great gray owl screws his head at the zoo in Muenster, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
  • Newborn

    A two-week-old Malay fish owl waits to be fed at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
  • Sing for your supper

    He then feeds on a baby mouse. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
  • Like owner, like bird

    Ornithologist Brian Little checks two barn owl chicks in Kielder, Northumberland. His farm allows holiday makers watch barn owls in their nest via CCTV.
  • Elton the Owl

    The nine-week old is weighed at London Zoo. Waves goodbye to his privacy.
  • Merkel's Owls

    A 10-week old female Great Gray Owl is fed a dead mouse by her father at Berlin Zoo earlier this year. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
  • The Animal Olympics

    Bob the burrowing owl, star of London Zoo's daily Animal Athletes in Action demonstration. This is part of a one hundred centimetre sprint. Go Bob go.
  • Burrowing Owls

    Two burrowing owls stand guard at the entrance to their underground nest in Florida during June this year. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
  • Family Portrait

    A mature burrowing owl and three young chicks sit at the entrance to their nest in Brian Piccalo Park in Pembroke Pines, Florida in May. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
  • Worried...for a reason

    To save the endangered spotted owl, the Obama administration is moving forward with a plan to shoot barred owls, a rival bird that has shoved its smaller cousin aside. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
  • Polar Owl

    Wise old things, aren't they? (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
  • Awwww

    In January this year, this owl was caught in a rabbit snare but survived after being treated for a damaged leg. Yay. (AP Photo/Andrew Vaughan, The Canadian Press)
  • See? All better.

    The same owl in Nova Scotia, Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)
  • Squeeeeeeeee

    In this May 16, 2011 photo, a veterinarian stretches her hands to protect a little owl, which is poisoned by pesticide and suffering from a neurological disorder that makes it difficult to keep its balance while standing, after a medical check at the Beijing Raptor Rescue Centre in China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
  • Baby Steps

    Animal keeper Steph Green watches Gloria, an 11-week-old eagle owl chick, as she takes her first few steps outside of her enclosure at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, Scotland.
  • Too much

    We just...
  • Screech Owl

    Hanging out at a mall in Buffalo, New York. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
  • Bless

    Tawny owl chicks in Kielder Forest, Northumberland. The tawny owl population in one of the UK's largest forests is booming as a result of the harsh winter, a Forestry Commission expert said last year.
  • Owl population soars

    Two Tawny owl chicks in Kielder Forest, Northumberland. The tawny owl population in one of the UK's largest forests is booming as a result of the harsh winter, a Forestry Commission expert said today.
  • Two's Company

    Spotted owlets on tree at Chalermphakieat temple in Bangkok.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
  • Winter weather

    A barn owl flies through the snow at Chessington World of Adventures and Zoo in Surrey.
  • Three's a crowd

    Three burrowing owl chicks named Huey, Dewy and Lewy from London Zoo were rescued from their underground nest box after heavy rains threatened to flood it.
  • Om nom nom

    Senior trainer at London Zoo Mark Habben feeds one of the three burrowing owl chicks at the zoo.
  • Cute

    Just so cute. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
  • Another fluffy newborn

    A two week old owlet born at the Raptor Foundation Woodhurst, Cambridgeshire.
  • Rescued!

    A one-month-old Neotropical Screech Owl clings to a piece of wood as it is held by a worker at the Endangered Wildlife Rescue Centre near Alajuela, Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
  • Spot the difference

    Four orphaned owls who have been given a stuffed toy to act as a surrogate mother for them. Eh????
  • An Irish Model and an Owl

    Belfast model Jenny Curran is joined by Harley, an Eagle Owl, at the launch of the Balmoral Show in Belfast.
  • What's up with that one

    An unusual six-week-old little owl (left) that has smaller eyes and is of a greyer colour alongside a typical little owl of a similar age at the Barn Owl Centre in Brockworth, Gloucestershire.
  • More of Merkel's chicks

    Two spectacled owl chicks, one born in March and the other in April 2005, perch together at the Berlin Zoo. (AP Photo/Kristy May)
  • Owwwwwwwwwl

    Five-year-old Fetlar is a snowy owl.
  • Not Harry's Owl

    Flash the Eagle Owl sits on top of a pile of rare Harry Potter first editions in Edinburgh.
  • Hedwig

    HEDWIG!
  • Blair's Owl

    Leo, the little owl suffered a broken leg but was rescued by armed police officers who guarded then-Prime Minister Tony Blair's constituency home. The stricken bird was found by a patrol in Durham after apparently hitting overhead. What?
  • Staring contest

    We're not sure who won between Wol the Tawny owl and Juno a Bull Mastiff. Picture: DAVID JONES/PA
  • Keeping the best 'til last

    One isn't sure about the proximity of the Barn Owl.

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