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Great-Horned Owl and Eurasian Collared-Dove found dead in Utah

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Photographs from a Great-Horned Owl and Eurasian Collared-Dove found dead in a residential yard in Utah, U.S. (A) The owl had singeing of the rictal bristles on the right side of the face (inset), swollen right eyelids, and a cloudy and thickened right cornea. (B) There was a wound with thickened edges on the bottom of the left foot and (C) red streaking on the digits of the right foot. (D) Internally, there was a 5 x 2-mm defect in the right atrium of the heart. (E) The dove had a wound at the base of the tail with blackened edges and (F) a 2-mm diameter right atrial defect. 

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