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A large canvas of my bear photo hung in the BC Legislature. Our local MLA claimed it helped pursued the Premier to totally ban Grizzly Bear trophy hunting in BC. Keep shooting photos, they can make a difference !

Holy shit this is so cool, what on earth!!! Please correct me if I'm wrong but everything I read online led me to this ID

https://inverts.wallawalla.edu/Arthropoda/Crustacea/Maxillopoda/Cirripedia/Coronula_diadema.html

@RBCM From BC Provincial Invasive Species App (RI-IOS Smartphone App Report Submission), app coordinates (51.585621, -120.124237) place the observation on the golf course, but the photo shows a road surface, so manually positioned the location to the closest roadway along the river.

A Great Horned Owl I saw in the park 2 days later confirmed for me that the feather was from that owl.

The feather is 4 3/4" or 12 cm, and that is a Thimbleberry leaf that might also be used for scale, for those who know how big Thimbleberry leaves are.

My initial ID made no sense after thinking whether a Western Screech Owl, about 8.7" tall, would have a body feather 4 3/4" long, more than 1/2 as tall as the bird!