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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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But a falconer did legally trap a snowy, I saw the picture on his Facebook page before he deleted it after a firestorm of controversy exploded. When I looked at lists of birds allowed for falconry in Minnesota years ago, I asked some of my falconer friends, “Really, owls?” I learned that I knew nothing of falconry.

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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I stuffed it in my pocket and decided to take it to Richard Oehlenschlager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Great horneds are known as the “Tiger of the Woods&# because they’ll hunt anything and they are good at it, but they are slow and stealthy. But those feathers didn’t match and the beak looked too small.

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