This Sunday, the subreddit /r/superbowl will host a gathering of hoo-ligans. They’ll be fans of the Nocturnal Flying League. Real birds of a feather. Starting at 6 pm ET, the Superb Owl community will kick off an Ask Me Anything with biologist James Duncan, who has spent his entire adult life studying owls and a mere three weeks playing football.

Superb Owls are everywhere! Trader Joe's has used the term on its in-store signage; Google now responds to a "superb owl" search with the details of the game and a cartoon bird; and the wordplay showed up as a category on Jeopardy this week. A brewery called Parallel 49 even released a limited-edition kolsch with the name.

OK, the joke might be wearing thin. But you know what? Owls are real head-turners. Why else would the internet be lousy with owl cams? Their night lives put the most Animal House–inspired college kids to shame. Their unmoving eyes and oversized, disc-like faces are hypnotic, and those power brows can outshine even Cara Delevingne. Barn owls, screech owls, snowies—their faces are among the most iconic in the animal kingdom. Why so fond? "My argument is that they look like us," says wildlife researcher Denver Holt, founder and president of the Owl Research Institute.

To witness owls doing owly things, turn first to the Montana owl cams set up by the Owl Research Institute and Explore.org. Livestreams are always a gamble, but the three feeds embedded below tend to provide reliable owl sightings.

One camera, trained on a site where long-eared owls like to roost, makes for particularly lively viewing. Long-eared owls are social, and at times you can see almost a dozen of them clustered in the same tree. "It might be the only camera in the world showing communal groups of owls," says Holt. It's an actual, real-life parliament of owls.

Like many human parliaments, this collective spends most of its day asleep. You might see some stretching, preening, the occasional snap to attention when an owl notices nearby movement. But the nice thing about sleeping owls is they stay put and you can gaze at them for ages.

Another strong contender from the Owl Research Institute is a camera that tends to capture great horned owls: "the tough guy, the football player of the owl world," Holt calls them. "They've got the body of a lineman and can knock down the biggest prey." These owls often show up on the group's osprey cam, and they don’t always like to share the limelight: Last April, a great horned owl dive-bombed an osprey on his perch three days in a row. Now that's a flying tackle.