\n Buddy, aged six, is an eagle owl, one of the world\u2019s largest species, standing at two-feet tall with a wingspan of five feet.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sally Buckland runs West Sussex Falconry in Compton, near Chichester.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said she found his enclosure empty on Monday morning, November 17, and believes he escaped between then and Sunday night.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Buckland fears he kicked the door of his aviary, which he does when pigeons are nearby, breaking the bolt and enabling his escape.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Buckland thinks he may have kicked open the door to his aviary (Image: West Sussex Falconry)\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cThe bolt has come off and the door has come open.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI went out to look for him. It\u2019s soul destroying going out looking.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s very, very rural here. You could be going in one direction and he could be going another way.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe\u2019s obviously quite large and distinctive.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Buddy is described as having ear tufts and orange eyes. He also has leather anklets, flying jesses and a red identity ring.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Buckland has asked members of the public not to approach him if spotted due to the risk of him being spooked and flying off.\n<\/p>\n
\n Anyone who spots him should instead call the falconry on 02392 631820 or 07796 472716.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m sitting here hoping someone will spot him,\u201d Ms Buckland added.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n She has also reported his disappearance to the Independent Bird Registry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buddy, aged six, is an eagle owl, one of the world\u2019s largest species, standing at two-feet tall with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-582107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115580920332918809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}