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NEW YORK – Becky DePorte was about 45 minutes outside the city when she got the text from a friend last Wednesday: A snowy owl was in Central Park.
DePorte – an avid bird-watcher – was then unaware a sighting of the owl hadn t been reported in Central Park in 130 years. At the time, she was in Rockefeller State Park Preserve with a friend who was looking for a pileated woodpecker, a bird she had seen plenty of times growing up in rural Pennsylvania. I really didn t care about a pileated woodpecker, she said. So she hopped in an Uber, and $60 and 45 minutes later, I was back in Central Park running to the ballfield with my camera.
Snowy owl seen in Central Park after 130 years, a rare spotting of an unpredictable Arctic bird Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
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NEW YORK – Becky DePorte was about 45 minutes outside the city when she got the text from a friend last Wednesday: A snowy owl was in Central Park.
DePorte – an avid bird-watcher – was then unaware a sighting of the owl hadn t been reported in Central Park in 130 years. At the time, she was in Rockefeller State Park Preserve with a friend who was looking for a pileated woodpecker, a bird she had seen plenty of times growing up in rural Pennsylvania.