Roc — shorthand for Rochester, NY, where this adult female was trapped Feb. 10, 2022, at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport — is at least six years old based on flight feather molt. She was captured by a team led by Tom McDonald and Melissa Mance-Coniglio, fitted with a GPS/GSM transmitter and relocated to near Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region of central New York. Within two weeks she had returned to the airport, and was later struck and killed by a vehicle along a neighboring highway. Roc’s transmitter was paid for by generous donations from the public to Project SNOWstorm.


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