If they have made it to Vancouver Island, they may make it to the Peninsula. Another set of climate refugees.
Half-starved snowy owls are flying 1,500 kilometres or more to Vancouver Island in search of food, says the founder of an avian rescue group in Courtenay. "They’re all starving," said Maj Birch, who founded Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society in 1995. "By the time they get down here, they’re usually very thin.