Dear NY Birders, I thought some people might enjoy Bryan Pfeiffer's essay on the significance of this winter's Snowy Owl irruption: http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/the-snowy-owl-is-a-messenger-from-the-arctic/
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