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80 years ago, the best headline ever about owls was written

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It’s been a big week for owls, what with the last Harry Potter film hitting theaters and an unfortunate British owl hitting a bedroom window. So it’s rather fortuitous that this fantastic article from a 1930 issue of Modern Mechanics was brought to my attention.

https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-happens-when-an-owl-crashes-into-your-wind-5820125

This is my second favorite orthinological headline I’ve ever read. And in case you were wondering, here’s the first.

[Via Modern Mechanix]

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