THE UNWISE OWL
CRASHED INTO WIRES I A huge owl. winging its way through tile night, flew against a A3,000-volt ! transmission line, causing a short eiv- | cuit that extinguished all the electric lights in the vicinity of St. Albans, Vermont. One of the highly charged wires burned through and fell on a wire fence, electrocuting three cows in a pasture and starting a brush fire. The body of the owl was found by . workmen seDt to repair the line. The , bird weighed eight pounds and had i a wing spread of four feet.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 28
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93THE UNWISE OWL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 28
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