Unfortunately some of those have been shot ... now they are being trapped instead (thankfully) ... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/nyregion/snowy-owls-to-be-trapped-instead-of-shot-at-new-york-area-airports.html
Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 2:22:03 PM UTC-7, Dunnings wrote: > > Greetings - > > As many of you are aware, the northeast has been experiencing a Snowy > Owl invasion which borders on mind boggling. > > I also subscribe to CTBirds and in the past week there have been a > couple of great posts about the owls on their listserv. > > The first is a video shot at Plum Island during the SNOW invasion of > 2011/2012. Contrary to popular belief, they have found that the owls > are not starving and not stressed. It is a great video and talks > about the owls relocated from Logan Airport. > > http://shawncarey.zenfolio.com/p414081867/h199a36f8#h199a36f8” > > The second is a link to a blog written by Scott Kruitbosch about this > year’s invasion. He pulls apart ebird data and presents some pretty > interesting stats. > > http://rtpi.org/snowy-owl-sightings-and-statistics/ > > Let’s keep our eyes open! > > Good owling, > Kathy Mihm Dunning > Denver > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/0564ddf5-bc2a-4151-81b2-76d3572183ab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
