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Stunning photos show 12 owls looking like they are in a Zoom meeting

"It shows the variety."

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L-R, top to bottom: Savanna , Zizi, Miska, Alicanto, Sequoia, Aztec, Metsikki, Mac, Rio, Altai, Lulu, Tony. (Katielee Arrowsmith via SWNS)

By Sarah Ward via SWNS

These stunning portrait photographs show 12 owls - looking just like they are a Zoom meeting.

The birds were snapped at the Scottish Owl Centre in Bathgate, West Lothian, with the smallest owl just the size of a Coke can.

Each variety of owl is different and a total of 50 live at the center - but the hypnotic yellow eyes and feather patterns are similar.

Head keeper Trystan Williams has worked there 11 years and said his favorite owl changes all the time.

Trystan said: "Many people think an owl looks a particular way.

"It almost looks like a Zoom meeting.

"It shows the variety.

Rio 2 years old black-banded owl female. (Katielee Arrowsmith via SWNS)
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"A lot of people think an owl is just going to be brown but there's a lot of variety.

"Some of them look like they're wearing bandit masks."

The youngest owl, Mac, a short-eared owl male aged seven months old, is particularly playful.

Trystan said: "He's very focused but then he's going to go off and do his own thing - just like a Zoom meeting."

He said owls were like cats because they sleep all the time and don't fetch the post.

Trystan said: "Owls are mysterious creatures, they have all got different voices too."

Spectacled owl Aztec, a three-year-old male, was born during lockdown so initially only Trystan looked after him.

Now the bird believes Trystan is his dad.

Trystan added: "I have a special bond with him.

"He thinks I'm his dad."

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