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Handsome Visitors From the High Tundra |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / NATURE WALK |
| Author: Dwight G. Smith |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 1,593 Words, 9,665 Characters |
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If you happen to be in one of the northern states this winter, particularly in a low, open prairie or an eastern coastal marsh, you might treat yourself to the sight of some of the most splendid visitors from the Arctic Circle. Dressed in white and seemingly tame, they invariably excite attention and admiration. Inuits know them as ookpikjuak; we call them snowy owls.
These impressive creatures normally inhabit the high tundra, along the northernmost rims of North America and Eurasia, and in the Arctic archipelago almost up to the limit of permanent ice and snow. But many of them spend their winters along the eastern seaboard and in the central plains of southern Canada and northern United States, as well as on the steppes and farmlands of Central Asia.
During especially severe winte...
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...ourceful birds adopted the dummies as hunting and resting perches.
These concerns aside, the snowy owl is a magnificent bird of prey that deserves our admiration and protection. Echoing this, Norman French, who has studied snowys for years in the Boston area, suggests that they serve a valuable function for environmental education, renewed each year with the arrival of the wintering birds.
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