CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) — Snowbirds are a standard sight in Southern California in wintertime — besides once they’re really a chicken. A snowy owl to be actual.
Crowds of bird-watchers have been exhibiting up frequently in an Orange County neighborhood to gawk at a snowy owl, a species usually discovered across the Arctic, Canada and a number of other northern U.S. states.
It’s present house is a rooftop perch within the balmy metropolis of Cypress.
“It’s completely distinctive as a chicken statement,” Vic Leipzig, who teaches birding at Saddleback School, instructed The Orange County Register this week.
The newspaper reported that native chicken specialists speculated that the owl may have arrived in Southern California aboard a ship or could possibly be a captive chicken that escaped.
“It’s an exquisite factor to see,” Leipzig mentioned. “That there have been so many individuals standing there watching this factor was very thrilling to me.”
