Little owl learns to fly in the botanical garden

It took five weeks for an owl to learn to fly.

Rusty was born in captivity and therefore needed human help to spread his wings.

Emma Hill, co-owner of the British Bird of Prey Center at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales, gladly took the lead.

Some test flights did not end well and it took only a few preliminary trials at the beginning, but eventually Rusty got used to it.

"It's greedy, it really helps," said Hill.

"He lives since his arrival at our home, he watches TV with us and sleeps in the bathroom.

"When we started training him, we could see he was really curious.

"I was trying to figure out where his next piece of food would come from, so we could see that he could always be a little bit more confident."

"It's the best thing I can do with a baby - it was a sense of pride for me when he finally took his first flight."

Rusty can now fly a few yards.

Let us block advertising! (Why?)