What If You Find a Dead Owl?

What to do with a dead owl:

So you found a dead owl on your property? The internet has a lot to say about that, and a lot of it is negative, sadly. The first big thing that the internet likes to reference would be the MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT, pay attention to that name because it could potentially mean some pretty bad stuff (provided you are not of Native American ancestry or currently living in Canada). The act strictly prohibits owning any parts of a dead raptor, and does not distinguish between finding a dead one and keeping it, or hunting it for its parts, the perpetrator will probably be dealt with in the same way. If you choose to ignore the law and risk the penalty (probably a rather unfair fine), then there are some things to take into account. You need to choose what parts to keep, if you are interested in the talons only with no flesh, that should be easy, just separate the bone from the body and wash it thoroughly with alcohol (boiling has been known to help too, but be careful, this was to remove excess flesh). If you wish to keep the flesh too, the internet recommends a homogenous (mixed up) mixture of corn meal and borax, I will attach a document about that treatment.

Mythology: There is not much mythology about dead OWLS, but there certainly is a lot about dead birds... In America, it seems, that the death of a bird INSIDE ONE'S HOUSE will mean the death of someone living in that house within a year. Now don't worry because this is just what one culture has to say about it. In other cultures the general idea is that a dead bird symbolizes a loss of freedom, to no one in particular, and to buddhists it serves as a reminder that nothing is permanent, and that even birds who roam free in the sky will eventually return to the earth forever. If a bird does not die IN ONE'S HOUSE, then it means NOTHING, or probably means that you live near a cat :). The rest of the mythology is

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