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The drake is also easy to spot with iridescent green secondary wing feathers. Come late winter and early spring, a drake's head and neck will turn a brilliant purplish-blue, and a white crescent ...

Other Okanagan owls included the Saw-Whet, Western Screech, Barred and Barn owl. Summer wildfires and smoky Okanagan skies don’t bother the birds. Belvedere says owls cool down by “fluffing up.” ...