Skip to main content
A WHOODUNIT

How the Hell Did This Snowy Owl End Up in the O.C.?

It showed up a few weeks ago to the delight of locals.

GettyImages-1245907606_qz5csz

David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty

A snowy owl has settled in Orange County, California, delighting local residents and befuddling bird experts, who are wondering how it ended up there. The raptor, accustomed to the arctic, showed up in Cypress, about 25 miles from Los Angeles, a few weeks ago. “It’s like seeing Santa Claus on a beach,” Nancy Caruso, a marine biologist, told The New York Times. “Like that out of place, but cool.” While snowy owls do travel southward in winter, it’s extremely rare to see one near southern California, said Lori Arent of the University of Minnesota’s Raptor Center.

Read it at The New York Times

TRENDING NOW