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The photo of this Northern Hawk Owl was taken
just before sunset on 27 January 2001 in the northern end of the Sax-Zim
bog area in St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA. Moments earlier, the
owl dove into the snow, returned with a mouse, and swallowed it whole.