occasional mass migrations of legendary of these arctic birds pre the South.
This was one of the main reasons why scientists Scott Weidensaul and David Brinker, created Project Snowstorm in 2013, when hundreds of snowy owls flew south, in a move that became known as the “raid”. This project monitors the travel of the owl in the snow using small GPS transmitters that have been connected onto the birds as backpacks (don’t worry, owls don’t get anything).
Adam Cole from NPR decided to take this idea even farther. The video that you see below, which was published last Monday, describes the journey of Cole along the path followed by an owl of the snow and, more specifically, a male owl named Baltimore has been detected in a total of 14,000 sites from Maryland up to Canada. Here you can read the whole experience of Cole.
And do you know who is a big fan of the Cole? O Weidensaul, one of the two founders of Project Snowstorm.
“Obviously we’re not talking about difficult, hard-core physics, but it has the same feeling of wonder and excitement that we feel as we discover some of the mysteries associated with this kind of,” said Weidensaul on HuffPost US.
As for what the future holds for Project Snowstorm, o Weidensaul says that he and Brinker engaged in the analysis of the data that have been collected from 43 owls in the last three years and plan the program of the next winter.
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What happened when a guy decided to follow an owl in the snow on the journey toward the South? [video]
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