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2023 Owl of the Year Winner!!! White Faced Scops Owl!!! (lemmy.world)
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With a final score of 125-99, it is clear that White Faced Scops in your choice for the first ever SuperbOwl Owl of the Year! WFS will in the near future be our new community icon, and Snowy, Screech, and Buffy will share the banner. We'll come up with some good ideas and see what looks best and get that taken care of.

All the owls have gotten a ton of support from you guys, which I loved seeing, and you've all joined in the fun and hopefully had a great time. This all went very well and I'm glad it really got all of you excited each day.

We're over 2100 members strong on Lemmy.World, more than double what it was back in July. It's great to be here enjoying this group with you. I hope we keep growing and keep having fun learning about owl stealthy feathered friends together. There are many more owls left to share with you, and many things left to learn and talk about.

Thank you all for your participation and being a great community of people!!!

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Take a bow, you superbest of superb owls!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

The King/Queen of Hoots!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] casmael@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This one really sells it for me

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I love the puffy pants.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] onigiri@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This look! So judgy, lol.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This may be my favorite owl face

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

This owl's expressiveness I feel really helped it. Some owls look goofy, or grumpy, but this guys has a pic of every mood!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He sees the things you do when you think no one is watching! 😅

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Santa, is that you?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

This Santa leaves pellets instead of coal!

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A great ending for another good superb owl season.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

So does they get a special Superb Owl ~~Ring~~Band?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Next one I catch gets a snazzy gold plated one! 😁

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sweet :)

I wonder, what stories to birds tell- about being caught, stuffed in a sock, then measured… and given that bit of jewelry before being let go.

Like. How similar would that be to an alien abduction story?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some of them probably like the shiny bling.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Probably. But …. Everything else? Lol. The belly fat check….

I could just see the Jays making up some kind of tough-guy stuff to impress people; then getting found out when others started showing up with the band

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I can guarantee there's never been a better one before this!

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for setting this up. This has been a lot of fun!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's been a lot of work, but even more fun.

Looking forward to going back to some easier posts, but can't wait to do it again next year!

I'll pull some stats from the tourney and pick out some highlight reel stuff from all the posts of the year too as a year end rewind type thing yet as well.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yah, you put in a ton of work on this; it's much appreciate!

I'm curious to know if there was a spike in subscriptions during the contest - do you have access to historical subscriber data?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I wish I did. I haven't found any good resource for checking stats like that. I should have just logged them myself.

From just glancing at it when I think of it though, we seem to gain 5-10 a day pretty consistently, which I like. I'd rather a few people trickle in from All, or new Reddit migrants than a big influx after a meme or something and then all the new people never check in again.

I want you guys to have this as something you look forward to every day and where you'll find something at least somewhat consistent. There's still a lot of other doom and gloom that gets posted elsewhere, so I like keeping this as the social media palate cleanser.

If we ever do get historical data, I'd love to see it though and see where the spikes are.

[–] onigiri@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m sad Snowy lost, but WFS is truly a superb owl.

Thanks for running this. It was a lot of fun and something to look forward to each day.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Good, I saw your name come up a lot so I could tell you liked it.

I hope you enjoy the normal day to day posts too!

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What a superb owl!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

The people have spoken, and it is deemed....SUPERB!

[–] QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love that this sub is here. Also pics in the comments is exactly what I came here for! 💯

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Good, we'll be getting back to much more of that!

[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe next year, Tawny Owl.... maybe next year 🥲

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I was sad it got knocked out so soon too!

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is a superbly owly-looking owl. Well deserved win!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, indeed! Every owl earned their place.

[–] WalrusByte@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad WFS won! I was rooting for it, but was worried the popularity of Snowy would win out. This little mustachioed owl was too cool not to win!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I expected Snowy to win or for it to be a much closer race. Snowy still did very well, but it was another big surprise for me.

I'm curious hoo will be popular next year!

[–] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like how vibrant orange its eyes are!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Orange eyes are my favorite owl eyes. Some other animals have amber eyes, but I never see any with ones that are this vibrant!

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

They look both menacing and surprised depending on the angle!