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Rare barn owls with 'horror movie' screech take up residence in NYC neighborhood

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A migration ecologist called the discovery of the barn owls’ nest ‘shocking’

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Both outlets frame the story around rare barn owls nesting in New York, with ABC News emphasizing a Manhattan water tower and the Upper West Side’s “latest celebrities.” The Independent uses the more colorful “horror movie” screech in its headline and adds, in its extract, that a migration ecologist called the discovery “shocking,” a detail not mentioned by ABC News.

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