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Do Snowy Owls really belong in genus Bubo?

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Over the past two weeks, an incursion of Snowy Owls ( Bubo scandiacus ) has spread rapidly across the Great Lakes region and down the Atlantic Coast, as far south as North Carolina. The haunting image above is from another year, by Kate Ter Haar.). We may learn more tomorrow, and that would be exciting.

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