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Messages regarding the Snowy Owl sightings from 1999 are listed below (most recent message is at the top).  

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From: "Florida Rare Bird Alert" <Dotty_Hull@prodigy.net>

Florida Rare Bird Alert

- FLORIDA STATEWIDE RARE BIRD ALERT UPDATE
Phone: 561-340-0079  (for taped message and to report sightings)
* Compilers: Hank and Dotty Hull
* email: Dotty_Hull@prodigy.net

 -Transcript
This is Dotty Hull reporting the Florida Statewide Rare Bird Alert UPDATE for Saturday, December 18. This report is sponsored by FLORIDA NATURE TOURS, which offers tours to the Dry Tortugas, Bahamas, South Florida and a Florida Super tour, as well as private guiding. For information go to http://www.floridanaturetours.com or call 407-363-1360. Future updates will depend upon sighting reports.

Reports are followed by coordinates from the DeLorme Gazateer road map of Florida. 

SPECIES MENTIONED
SNOWY OWL

FRANKLIN COUNTY
The immature SNOWY OWL was seen today, 12/18 at St. George Island State Park. The owl was seen just where it has been seen most of the time on the south side of the road on the tops of dunes between parking lots 6 and 8. It sometimes perches in the treetops north of the road. One day the owl was seen about æ mile from the end of the road on the dunes. Walking on the dunes is prohibited and the area will be patrolled and the rule enforced. From Apalachicola, take Rt. 98 east to Eastpoint and take Rt. 31A south to the State Park. De Lorme p. 60, C3

 Good Birding!

Documentation of rarities for FL Ornithological Society Records Committee should be sent to FOSRC, c/o Archbold Biological Station, PO Box 2057, Lake Placid FL 33862.

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Sent:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:31:16 -0600

Subject:        Re: Snowy Owl

The owl is still at St. George State Park but has moved from the location where it was seen over the weekend.  As of 3PM EST today it was sitting on a sand dune approximately  3/4 mile from the end of the road (stop sign and unpaved road continues east) .  The owl was about 60 feet from the road between the road and the bay to the north.

Good Luck,

H. J. (Hud) Huddleston
Fort Walton Beach, FL
huddlehd@bsc.net

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Sent:  Sunday, Dec. 12
From: Lucy R Duncan (duncan44@juno.com)

The Snowy Owl was still present on St. George Island just east and south of Appalachicola, FL.  The owl is within the State Park (east end of the island), and park personnel will tell you just where it is.  This is the first verifiable record for the state of Florida (to my knowledge there are only two previous hypotheticals), and just as few records exist for Alabama.  If you have never seen this owl, and even if you have, it is certainly worth the trip over.  FYI, St. George Island is 3 1/2 hours from Gulf Breeze driving east on 98 in the early morning before business traffic. 

Lucy

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Date sent:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:37:52 -0500
From:           pbaker@ksinc.net (Peggy Baker)
Subject:        RBA Northwest Florida/ South Alabama- 10-31-99

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Hello,   An immature Snowy Owl has been found at St. George Is. State Park in Franklin Co., FL (Delorme Atlas, p. 61). The bird has been present at  least since yesterday. Park staff reported it us and others yesterday and  were reasonably sure of their ID. Other birders confirmed it today, and now I'm  trying to get the word out.   Please pass the word around, and good birding.   

George E. Wallace

Regional Wildlife Diversity Conservation  Biologist Florida Fish and
     Wildlife Conservation Commission 

3911 Hwy  2321 Panama City, FL 32409-1658 

Tel: 850-265-3677 Fax:  850-747-5690 

E-mail:  wallacg@gfc.state.fl.us

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