Snowy owls are common year-round in the Arctic on the open tundra. They fly south throughout Canada in winter. The best time to see a snowy owl in the lower 48 states is during an irruption.This ...

Snowy Owl Home Watch launched in fall 2022 as a resource for anyone who knows they will be away from their property for an extended period of time. There are approximately 44,000 snowbirds who ...

A snowy owl is causing something of a sensation in the nation's capital -- looking down with startling yellow eyes from perches not far from the U.S. Capitol and drawing flocks of amateur wildlife ...

The eye of the snowy owl is almost as large as a human’s eye. But owls do not have the largest eyes in the bird kingdom. That distinction belongs to the ostrich.

Snowy owl sightings in Michigan are always cause for excitement — the huge white birds with piercing yellow eyes are undeniably captivating — but when one appeared on a parking lot picnic ...

The Snowy Owl is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. It is also known in North America as the Arctic Owl or the Great White Owl. This huge yellow-eyed white bird is unmistakable. It ...

Snowy owls are the heaviest owl in North America, with an average weight of 4 pounds. They are about 23 inches long and have an average wingspan of 52 inches, according to the Sibley Guide to Birds .

Its eyes are catching, because unlike other birds they blink from the top down, like humans. ... The snowy owl is not only the star of film but the stuff of legend.

A snowy owl looks down from its perch on a marble eagle of the Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain at the entrance to Union Station in Washington, D.C., on January 7, 2022.

Stopped in traffic as snow began to fall at dusk on Rollins Road in Round Lake Beach, Bryan Ross glanced at the top of a street lamp. And then he said he got goose bumps. A snowy owl had landed ...