I recently found a dead Western Screech-Owl that I believe had been hit by a vehicle trying to fly across busy MacKenzie Ave on the eastern edge of Canon City. It was not mangled so I took close-up photos on which I can see what looks like papillae on the bottom of it's foot pads. I wonder if anyone knows the purpose of those? I have previously found dead Northern Pygmy-Owl but do not remember it having foot pads like this. I have uploaded a few photos of it including of those feet onto my Birds and Nature blog <http://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/>.
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