The internet is buzzing over the extremely rare appearance of a snowy owl landing in Central Park late January, a sight experts say hasn’t happened for over a century. According to CBS, the snowy owl was sighted in the North Meadow baseball field last week, likely migrating south for the winter. The bird, which is native to the Arctic tundra, sometimes flies south in search of warmer temperatures during the winter months. However, the last known appearance of a snowy owl in Central Park was over 130 years ago, in 1890. Yet even more remarkably, ABC reports that this is the first photographic evidence of snowy owls in Central Park. “It is extremely unlikely that we will ever see another Snowy Owl in our lifetimes in Central Park,” Manhattan Bird Alert told ABC on Jan. 28. “Remember, the last one was over 100 years ago. Though more people observe birds …
Snowy Owl Appears in Manhattan’s Central Park for the First Time in 130 Years in Rare Migration
February 5, 2021
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