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Meet Jibini the adorable milky eagle owl

Posted by Elizabeth Bacher, Communications Jibini at 1 month old and already a big boy! Photo: Elizabeth Bacher/Woodland Park Zoo We’d love to introduce you to the newest, and youngest member of our Ambassador Team—although he is certainly not the smallest! At least not anymore. This is Jibini. He is a Verreaux eagle owl, more commonly known as a milky eagle owl—the first of his species at Woodland Park Zoo. Anytime you hear of a species that is called an ‘eagle owl,’ it immediately begs the question “is it an eagle or an owl”? The ‘eagle’ part is a size reference. This bird is technically a very large owl—one of the largest in the world actually! A tiny Jibini at 13 days old. Photo: Regina Smith/Woodland Park Zoo After arriving as an egg from Zoo Atlanta, where his parents live, Jibini hatched on January 28th under the watchful eye of our dedicated keepers. He was smaller than a tennis ball at the time and, like many bird species, he was mostly featherless except for so...