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 There are some photos here.
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There are photos herehttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/03/08/ns-rare-burrowing-owl.html?cmp=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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<br/>On March 8, 2013 at 6:53 PM Elizabeth Doull <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
<br/>> Found some info in CBC. Thanks to the PEI birder who spotted/ identified a
<br/>> Burrowing Owl on a program called Land and Sea shown in February 2013. The
<br/>> filming was in October 2012. It would have been neat if the film people
<br/>> informed NSBS of the unusual sighting last fall! There is a 2-minute
<br/>> clip of the owl. Liz
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<br/>> Rare Florida owl spotted on island in Halifax harbour
<br/>> P.E.I. birder ID'd the burrowing owl, native to Florida
<br/>> CBC News
<br/>> Mar 8, 2013
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<br/>> Birders say a small owl, native to Florida, has been discovered in Nova
<br/>> Scotia for the first time.
<br/>> The rare burrowing owl is listed as a species of special concern in Florida.
<br/>>
<br/>> A shot of the bird with its piercing yellow eyes and spotted plumage
<br/>> recently appeared in the middle of a half-hour Land and Sea documentary
<br/>> about Nova Scotia islands that aired on CBC Television.
<br/>>
<br/>> The owl may have hitched a ride to Halifax on a ship, but a more probable
<br/>> explanation is the critter was blown this way during a storm last fall.
<br/>> (Courtesy of Tell Tale Productions)
<br/>>
<br/>> The footage was shot by Tell Tale Productions last October on McNabs Island
<br/>> at the mouth of Halifax Harbour.
<br/>>
<br/>> An eagle-eyed birder from P.E.I. watching the February Land and Sea program
<br/>> recognized the owl as an unusual visitor.
<br/>>
<br/>> The Nova Scotia Bird Society did some checking and it turned out that the
<br/>> owl was a long way from home.
<br/>>
<br/>> "The colour of the bird is a darker brown, which indicates an eastern
<br/>> species and the only place [that they would breed] on the east coast of
<br/>> North America is Florida," said David Currie, president of the Nova Scotia
<br/>> Bird Society.
<br/>>
<br/>> Currie said the feathers suggest the owl hatched last year.
<br/>>
<br/>> It's not clear if it's male or female.
<br/>>
<br/>> The owl may have hitched a ride to Halifax on a ship, but a more probable
<br/>> explanation is the critter was blown this way during a storm last fall.
<br/>>
<br/>> No burrowing owl sightings have been reported since.
<br/>>
<br/>> "We checked out all the bunkers that we could get into in Fort McNab and of
<br/>> course the bird wasn't there, not surprising. But we did check out and see
<br/>> what type of fence posts it may have been sitting on and we photographed a
<br/>> few of those so we know it was certainly here, there's no question about
<br/>> it," said Currie.
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<br/>> "He may not have found his way back and he may have met his demise over
<br/>> there, we really don't know. He could be in another bunker that I couldn't
<br/>> get into, who knows. We can always hope."
<br/>> This would not be the first time a bird ended up off-course in the
<br/>> Maritimes. Last fall a wayward American white pelican was spotted on P.E.I.
<br/>> Then in December, a yellow-throated warbler was spotted on central P.E.I.
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