{"id":3754,"date":"2012-02-01T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2012-02-01T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:32:16","slug":"snowy-owls-soar-south-from-arctic-in-rare-mass-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3754","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Owls Soar South From Arctic In Rare Mass Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Snowy Owls Soar South from Arctic in Rare Mass Migration: <\/strong>Rising  numbers of Snowy Owls from the Arctic are flying into the lower 48  states this winter&#8211;a mass migration that a leading owl researcher  called &#8220;unbelievable.&#8221;\u00a0 Thousands of the snow-white birds have been seen  from Idaho and Montana to Missouri and Oklahoma and even to the  shorelines of Massachusetts.\u00a0 One bird was shot and killed at an airport  in Hawaii to keep it from causing a collision with airplanes.<\/p>\n<p>Considered the most significant wildlife event in decades, the  phenomenon is likely linked to lemmings, a rodent that accounts for 90%  of the Snowy Owls&#8217; diet.\u00a0 An especially plentiful supply of lemmings  last season led to a population boom among the owls, and the greater  competition this year for food in the Far North may have driven the  younger, mostly male owls farther south than normal.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/snowy-owls-soar-south-arctic-rare-mass-migration-175336821.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/snowy-owls-soar-south-arctic-rare-mass-migration-175336821.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowy Owls Soar South from Arctic in Rare Mass Migration: Rising numbers of Snowy Owls from the Arctic are flying into the lower 48 states this winter&#8211;a mass migration that a leading owl researcher called &#8220;unbelievable.&#8221;\u00a0 Thousands of the snow-white birds have been seen from Idaho and Montana to Missouri and Oklahoma and even to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}