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Article: OWLS FROM FAR NORTH GATHER IN STATE THE BIRDS HAVE FLOWN FROM CANADA BECAUSE OF DEEP SNOW AND LITTLE FOOD THERE.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2005
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Byline: Ron Seely Wisconsin State Journal
Parliament is in session in Wisconsin, but there is not one powdered wig in sight.
That's because we're talking about a gathering of owls, not British politicians. And a gathering of owls is indeed called a "parliament," just as a gathering of larks is called an "exaltation" and a gathering of eagles, a "convocation."
But it's the owls that have birders in Wisconsin chirping this winter. Driven down out of their far northern haunts in Canada by deep snow and a crash in the population of meadow voles, rarely seen owls such as the great gray owl, the northern hawk owl and the boreal owl are being seen by ...