The snowy bird is coming from north part of the globe, the birds flew over the countries which close to their breeding of the Arctic Circle
This predator may be seen abundance about 20 to 30 years ago in the regions or countries such as:
- Canada
- Iceland
- Denmark (Greenland)
- Sweden
- British Isles
- northern states of USA
Since the snowy birds can fly long distance about 7,000 miles (11,300 km), the bird could be observed in the southern states include:
- Hawaii
Unfortunately, once found easily, now very rare in many places. Even, no snowy owls for more than 100 years in certain areas.
The population was estimated 200,000 of snowy owl in 2013, but decreasing in great number to be 28,000 only in 2017.
Without doubt, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list the snowy owl to be “vulnerable” species.
Vulnerable species means “A species considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.”
Several factors caused population decreasing:
- illegal hunting
- hitting power lines or vehicles
Just recently, many mainstream medias, not limited to USA Today, Yahoo News, New York Times and NBC news have been surprising with appearing of snowy owl in Central Park, New York after 130 years.
We don’t know the reasons yet!!
Snow owl video:
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