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Anonymous ID: 8564af Dec. 29, 2025, 4:01 a.m. No.24042663   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2670 >>2784 >>3035 >>3361 >>3664 >>3755 >>3794

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Sweden has declared the Snowy Owl nationally extinct…due to Rapid Arctic Warming

 

Bullshit!

see:

 

"The lemming cycle determines whether snowy owls breed or not, and in 2023 a lemming peak was expected. Only one nest of snowy owls was documented in Norway and Fennoscandia in 2023. The previous season with successful nesting snowy owls was in 2015. This year’s expected nesting season was largely spoiled when thelemming population collapsed due to icing during the winter of 2022/2023, which also happened in the winter of 2018/19. In Norway, there were 24 observations of snowy owls which have been qualified by the snowy owl project. In addition, 21 and three observations were reported in Finland and Sweden, respectively. This is far fewer than during the good breeding seasons of 2011 and 2015. There were also fewer than in 2019, when there were no known breeding records. This year, the data set for population genomics was completed, which now consists of 68 whole-genome sequenced snowy owls from various populations. We have done a number of preliminary analyses based on parts of the dataset, and find no indication of population structure or genetic differences between individuals from different geographic regions. In 2024, we will examine the demographic history of snowy owls to gain insight into how the population size has changed over time, as well as look more at genetic diversity in the species. This could provide a clue as to whether the snowy owl will be able to adapt to future environmental changes."

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377147570_Snouglas_okologi_og_forekomst_i_Norge_Arsrapport_2023

 

"Successful breeding is closely linked to the abundance of lemmings and other small mammals, which form its primary diet. When prey populations decline sharply, individual owls may wander far south, reaching as far as southern Finland, the Baltic region, and even Central Europe in search of food.

 

The Snowy Owl’s migration patterns are closely tied to fluctuations in Arctic small mammal populations, with movements occurring eastwards or westwards across the circumpolar Arctic regions worldwide."

 

https://finlandmagazine.fi/news/snowy-owl