SNOWY OWLS ARE HERE NOW == ROGER'S OUTDOOR NEWS + WDNR

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Home    Donate    Contact Photo courtesy of Ryan Brady A good year to see our Arctic avian visitors  It's looking like another big year for snowy owls in Wisconsin. As of Nov. 20, at least 69 individual birds have been spotted in 31 counties statewide. This total rivals the 82 found by this date in 2015-16 and far exceeds the three birds found by now last year. Sightings have been widespread across every corner of the state, with biggest numbers from Green Bay to Oshkosh, in the Chequamegon Bay area near Ashland, and along the Lake Michigan shoreline, including a remarkable six individuals at the Sheboygan lakefront on Nov. 19. Wisconsin’s influx is part of a large irruption underway across the eastern two-thirds of the continent from the western Great Plains to the Atlantic coast, highlighted by owls as far south as Oklahoma and North Carolina. Our special snowy owl webpage has tips on where to look for these charismatic birds, where to report your sightings, and why birds may be showing up in large numbers this year.     2621