Spiritual and psychological practices have often praised the power of taking a simple 10-second break when you're feeling stressed out, anxious, or confrontational. Simply close your eyes, breathe through your nose, out of your mouth, repeat for 10 seconds, and ta-da — a healthy dose of tranquility.
Additionally, snowy owls are protected under The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which makes it illegal to “take, possess, import, export, transport, sell, purchase, barter, or offer for sale, purchase, or barter, any migratory bird, or the parts, nests, or eggs” without a federal permit.
Snowy owl sightings were a seemingly rare occurrence in the lower peninsula until 2017 when they began appearing in very public places, like atop unsuspecting people's cars, or, in one case, an owl chose to make itself comfortable on the rooftop of One Woodward Avenue. Last July, the Wyandotte Police Department reported a snowy owl sighting on a day when scorching summer temps hovered around 90 degrees. Hell, we put the nomadic bird on our cover in 2018 because it made us feel good.
“There's less snow here than there is in the tundra right now, so it's easier for them to find food,” program coordinator at Detroit Audubon Bailey Lininger told Metro Times in 2018. “And there's less competition because the more mature birds are up on the tundra.”
Lininger explained that the snowy owl invasion was the result of an irregular migration event known as an irruption, which is caused by a population boom in their arctic home, which in the case of our snowy owl bunch, is the arctic tundra of Northern Canada. Ultimately, they hang out here in the winter and eat, and will then head north to breed in the spring, which means one thing: snowy owl babies.
Apparently, owls don't like to swim — in other instances caught on video, experts determined that the birds were likely in distress. So let's hope our fluffy little friend is OK.
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