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Thanks to a population boom in the Arctic, many snowy owls have headed south this winter

By Jane George, Nunatsiaq News January 10, 2018
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Snowy owls have become the new Arctic “snow birds” this winter, migrating south in great numbers, and some of the birds, called ookpiks in Inuktitut, have gone as far south as the state of Missouri where their presence on power poles, hay bales and fences has attracted a lot of attention.

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