User:Frostly/Central Park snowy owl

young female

First sighting was winter of 1890 https://web.archive.org/web/20230420161751/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/nyregion/snowy-owl-central-park.html

when an large number of the rapters flew unusually far south along the east coast to Delaware. Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of a snowy owl in Central Park in December 1890.

Sighting and public attention
The snowy owl was first spotted at Central Park's North Meadow baseball and softball diamonds at at 8:58 a.m. on January 27, 2021. The sighting was recorded on the citizen science tracking platform eBird, before being widely disseminated by birder David Barrett through the Twitter account Manhattan Bird Alert just after 10:30 a.m. The baseball fields where the owl was present are fenced off to allow for regrowth of grass every winter; because of this, the roughly 100 onlookers were kept two hundred feet from her, although at least one person ignored the barrier.

Several crows were spotted harassing owl; a red-tailed hawk teritorially attempted to usher the bird to vacate the grounds. The owl was quite bothered.

Urban Park Rangers managed a crowd of onlookers and corrected one drone condition fifty feet in the air as it was stressing the bird.

David barett thinks owl thought sandy baseball diamonds for a beach,

"winning the lottery"

Audubon Society outreach manager Molly Adams

Barrett, a retired hedge fund manager who started the twitter account in ____, has been described as New York City's "premier bird nerd". It quickly became a local celebrity, with the duck and the public's enthusiasm for it receiving national and international coverage, covered by the New York Times, Smithsonian, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fox News, NBC, USA Today, India Today, and Hindustan Times.

Gone by Thursday.

The cluster of baseball and softball diamonds might have reminded the owl of its native hunting grounds or the sandy beaches of Queens and Long Island where owls often stop by in the winter.

sitting atop a chain-link fence

Coming in for a landing near third base

Looking coquettishly over her shoulder

Doing that amazing 180-degree thing that owls can do with their heads:



A flock of crows flew down to harass her and try to drive her out (owls sometimes eat crows).

A red-tailed hawk buzzed over her head (hawks are fiercely territorial and do not abide trespassers).

Tweeting the locations of a snowy owl to a follower base with a long history of harassing owls is a great look, man,” a user named Aidan Place wrote. critisize

gone by thurs morning

Before its appearance, the last reported sighting of a snowy owl in Manhattan was in 1890,

supplementing their usual diet of lemmings with mice and other rodents, ducks

"It probably ends up in Brooklyn or Queens, or it might even keep going farther east and end up in Long Island," Barrett said, adding the New Jersey coast as another potential destination.

It has been described as a sequel to the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree owl and the Central Park mandarin duck.

A week later, another appearance of a snowy owl was spotted on February 3, 2021. 9:40 pm on the Central Park Reservoir North Pumphouse and then briefly in trees near it before it flew north. around 6 pm also on thursday

Saturday night in February and there was more than a foot of snow in Central Park, along with slippery patches of black ice and slushy, calf-high puddles. But some 200 New Yorkers carefully made their way to the Reservoir in hopes of catching a glimpse of the magical snowy owl, PEOPLE WENT THERE ON SAT

A half-dozen park rangers wedneday

The rangers told everyone not to shout, use flash photography or deploy drones to get shots.

e “Owl Etiquette” guide from the Linnaean Society of New York, which promotes bird watching, emphasizes that fans need to remain quiet, keep a respectful distance and let the birds rest. “Do not share sensitive owl locations with unknown people in large public forums like       Twitter,      ” it warns.

The bird flew away around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, rangers from the New York City Parks Department said.“We were asking people to quiet their dogs yesterday because that’s a stressor for the bird,” said Dan Tainow from the New York City Urban Park Rangers.

On Wednesday she stopped one man with an unleashed dog to tell him that it was outside off-leash hours, and that dogs posed a threat to the snowy owl nearby.

unsure if it is the same bird

en congregate in areas like airports where there are wide-open horizons like the tundra.

A big city's skyline may provide a sort of familiarity for the bird

"They're just really unpredictable,