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Snowy Owls Rare Migration Further South Remains Mystery

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Snowy Owls Rare Migration Further South Remains Mystery To Experts

Snowy Owls are migrating en-mass further south this season, with some sightings as far south as Oklahoma! There have been sightings of thousands of the snow-white birds, which stand 2 feet tall with 5-foot wingspans, have been spotted from coast to coast, feeding in farmlands of Idaho, roosting on rooftops in Montana, sailing over golf courses in Missouri and over the shorelines in Massachusetts.

Bird enthusiasts this year report elevated levels of these iconic birds from the Arctic flying into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that leading owl researcher Denver Holt, head of the Owl Research Institute in Montana called “unbelievable. What we’re seeing now it’s unbelievable,” he said.

A small of the iconic owls fly south from their Arctic breeding grounds each winter but rarely do such vast quantities venture so far away even amid large-scale, periodic southern migrations known as irruptions. Continue Reading Snowy Owls Rare Migration Further South Remains Mystery Here

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