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The snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus), [4] also known as the polar owl, the white owl and the Arctic owl, [5] is a large, white owl of the true owl family. [6] Snowy owls are native to the Arctic regions of both North America and the Palearctic, breeding mostly on the tundra. [2]
Smithsonian Snowy Owl Info Archived 27 November 1999 at the Wayback Machine; World Owl Trust; Athenian Owl coins; Eurasia: World of Owls – Northern Ireland's only owl, bird of prey and exotic animal centre; Current Blakiston's Fish Owl Research in Russia; North America: List of Owl Species Breeding In North American and Owl Photos; Oceania:
Snowy owls nest on the Arctic tundra, often on a slight rise where wind keeps the ground free of snow. In years when the species' primary summer food source - lemmings - is high, snowies may raise ...
Typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Great horned owl, Bubo virginianus; Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus; Northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula; Northern pygmy-owl, Glaucidium gnoma (C)
Snowy owls spend the summer breeding season on the tundra north of the Arctic circle. Come winter, some move south into southern Canada and the northern United States, including Wisconsin.
Snowy owls are invading New York. And the freezing cold temperatures are to thank for their arrival. So far, at least seven of the owls have been spotted in the New York City area.
In Canada, barn owls are no longer common and are most likely to be found in coastal British Columbia south of Vancouver, [60] having become extremely rare in a previous habitat, southern Ontario. In spite of a Recovery Strategy, particularly in 2007–2010 in Ontario, [61] only a handful of wild, breeding barn owls existed in the province in ...
Tawny and brown fish owls are both slightly smaller than co-occurring Eurasian eagle-owls, and Blakiston's fish owls are similar or slightly larger than co-occurring large northern eagle-owls. Fish owls, being tied to the edges of fresh water, where they hunt mainly fish and crabs, also have slightly differing, and more narrow, habitat preferences.