Snowy Owls, Listed as Threat to Planes, Shot Down at JFK Airport: Source

[Ptarmigan]

Snowy Owls, Listed as Threat to Planes, Shot Down at JFK Airport: Source
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Port-Authority-Killing-Snowy-Owls-Airports-Source-235026351.html

The agency that oversees New York’s airports has added snowy owls to its no-fly list, shooting down at least two at Kennedy Airport and issuing an alert to kill any more that are spotted there, an airport source told NBC 4 New York.

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey issued the shoot-to-kill order for the birds after one flew into a jet's engine while the plane was on a tarmac at Kennedy last week, the source said.

Port Authority workers shot two snowy owls with a shotgun on Saturday amid concerns that they would also fly into planes. A wildlife specialist who works for the Port Authority spent 45 minutes chasing one of them down, the source said.

Snow owls eat ptarmigans, so it is God's punishment. 

[JohnnyReb]

I saw an article a few days ago that gave wind farm operators a license to kill so many bald eagles a year for the next 30 years.

Can't have the national bird stopping green energy.