The Great Grey Owl practices tireless hunting efforts. This has to do with the owl’s decision not to migrate, but instead to remain in the same location year-round. Consequently, during the winter, ...

The great gray owl (Strix nebulosa) is a northern raptor that only occasionally graces our northeastern states. Also called ...

Hovering over a target helps giant-faced Great Gray owls pinpoint prey hidden beneath as much as two feet of snow. Several of the owls' physical features, especially parts of their wings and face, ...

There's a chance of snow in parts of Wisconsin this week. But the season's first gifts of the Arctic, documented and true, are already in the state. Four snowy owls have been seen and photographed in ...

Large raptors make rare winter appearances in the southern reaches of their territory. The post Winter strays: Great gray ...

The DNR recorded 64 snowy owls in Wisconsin, an average number and short of an "irruption," or large movement of Arctic birds ...

This winter, starting in late November, a Short-eared Owl in West Dennis established a pattern of showing up each late ...

It's been cold and snowy in Ohio lately, but has it been cold enough for a bird more commonly found in the arctic to be seen? Apparently so, since a snowy owl—a rare visitor to the Buckeye State—has ...

A few years ago on Christmas morning we were waking up with a slow luxurious bit of coffee and tea, and the phone rang - a call on a snowy owl in need of help – out in a field, unable to fly. Of ...

Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on rodents scurrying along the ground below. Scientists have long puzzled over a ...