Perhaps this is a naïve question on my part - but how can an owl die of
starvation this early in the winter? I would have thought that fields and
woodlands would be full of rodents.


-- 
Anne Baber Wallis, MHS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
University of Iowa
[email protected]
 
No woman should die giving birth.
-- UNFPA www.unfpa.org/public/mothers






On 12/6/11 4:45 PM, "Jim Moreland" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I checked and the Snowy Owl was still present south of Hwy 30 on Hwy 17.
>It was there between 7:30 and 9:30 and had not moved at all it appeared.
>
>I just received word from the land owner that the owl is dead.  Apparently
>it starved to death.  A naturalist is there now picking it up.  The land
>owner did not elaborate who the naturalist was associated with.
>
>I hope others don't meet the same fate.
>
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