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(New York, NY/77WABC)-It hasn’t happened in 131 years. For the first time since the 19th Century, a Snowy Owl was spotted in NYC’s Central Park Wednesday.
A flock of sight-seers took to Social Media causing quite the stir.
The SNOWY OWL on a west ballfield of the Central Park North Meadow, perhaps the first-ever documented record of this species in the park, with its new buddy, an American Crow. pic.twitter.com/jtiuPB1VRL
— Manhattan Bird Alert (@BirdCentralPark) January 27, 2021
The Snowy Owl was spotted by sight-seers walking the 3rd base line of the North Meadow Ballfield which is North of the 97th St. Transverse in Manhattan.
According to Wikipedia, the snowy owl is native to the Artic regions of both North America and the Palearctic, breeding mostly on the Tundra.
The Snowy Owl is sometimes referred to as the Polar Owl.
