Snowy owl seen in Central Park after 130 years, a rare spotting of an 'unpredictable' Arctic bird [View all]

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NEW YORK – Becky DePorte was about 45 minutes outside of 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."


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