Fw: [IBLE] Looking for Snowy Owls

["james.d.mcintyre" <james dot d dot mcintyre at worldnet dot att dot net>]

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From: Cliff and Lisa Weisse 
To: IBLE 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:49 AM
Subject: Looking for Snowy Owls


 Since there seems to be a lot of interest in Snowy Owls I thought I'd 
make a suggestion to anyone looking for one.  White may not be the color 
you're looking for.  All ages except adult male are, or at least can be, 
heavily marked with black.  Enough to appear dark at a distance.  Some 
first year females are white only on the facial discs.  Since it's more 
likely that a female and/or young bird will show up I'm going to take a 
better look at any large raptor that isn't obviously a buteo no matter 
what color they appear to be.  The good news is those dark individuals 
won't be as hard to spot against snow as I thought they would.  Here's a 
link to an article that shows how to age Snowy Owls.  
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/JFO/v051n02/p0149-p0160.pdf  You may not be 
interested in knowing how to age them but the photos show how 
extensively dark they can be.  

Here's another link to photos of a heavily marked individual that's 
currently being seen at Portland Airport in OR.  
http://home.pacifier.com/~birder/snowy.html

Cliff

Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, ID
october@ida.net


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