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Tonight on As It Happens (check cbc.ca/aih/ tomorrow), at the very end of the show, Carol Off interviewed somebody named Smith at Logan Airport in Boston. They have records now for 32 winters of observations and captures etc. He said the average number of owls per year has been six, but this year so far there have been twenty- two. I think he also said that this year there have been two incidents involving the owls and airplanes, but no downed planes nor human casualties. Earlier in the winter J.F.Kennedy Airport at New York City decided there was a bad enough problem with snowy owls that they gave the order to shoot them on sight. But the public raised a ruckus that caused them to rethink this and then try what the Boston Airport does, namely capture them and band them and relocate them away from and south of the airports in question. And Smith at Logan Airport says that has worked well for them, that the released owls to the south mostly remained south of the airport after relocation. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.
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