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Snowy Owl Update

Joel Jorgensen February 4, 2014 Leave a comment

I blogged earlier this year that Nebraska is west of this year’s Snowy Owl invasion.  Over the past week, there have been two new Nebraska reports to add to the single one from December.  The first was reported to NEbirds and involved an owl at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on 28 January 2014.  The owl was apparently photographed.  The second report actually occurred earlier, but just reached my desk over the weekend.   Judy Blunk was the lucky observer and found the Snowy Owl, pictured below, 2 miles south of Daykin, Jefferson County, on 25 January 2014.

Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl near Daykin, Jefferson County, 25 January 2014. Photo by Judy Blunk.

As I have often stated, please do not hesitate contacting me if you have the good fortune of stumbling across a Snowy Owl.

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About Joel Jorgensen

Joel Jorgensen is a Nebraska native and he has been interested in birds just about as long as he has been breathing. He has been NGPC’s Nongame Bird Program Manager for eight years and he works on a array of monitoring, research, regulatory and conservation issues. Nongame birds are the 400 or so species that are not hunted and include the Whooping Crane, Least Tern, Piping Plover, Bald Eagle, and Peregrine Falcon. When not working, he enjoys birding.

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