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Miguel- Cádiz
Lots of twitchers and tweeters about in the Cabo Peñas area of Asturias with sightings of snowy owls. There is talk of three separate birds but I don’t thinks that has been confirmed…. Some people are saying they have escaped from captivity whilst others believe they have migrated from the arctic.
Video on you tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5aECRkpXTU
RachelOne of the birds was taken to the Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre de Cantabria and later died. The cause was starvation and exhaustion. No rings or identity chips and so it is thought that this was a wild and not captive bred bird.
How it got here is another thing. A theory that it was “ship assisted” and came from North America is circling around… I think more likely its come down from the artic across eastern Europe
Full story in Spanish on El Diario website: https://www.eldiariomontanes.es/dmontana/naturaleza/cantabria-registrar-primera-20211112133648-nt.html
Ship assisted migration info on youtube …. Fascinating…
Miguel
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