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. > > >--- >Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as >members make it! >--- >Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: >Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 >--- >This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. >Membership available on-line at >http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/membership.asp. >----- >You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected] --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/membership.asp. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
