Snowy Owls lead nomadic lives and travel vast distances from year to year searching for productive feeding areas. Some years, most recently in the winter of 2011/2012, conditions cause them to come south in great numbers.
Get an intimate look at these white owls from the north through video and photographs captured by the Cornell Lab's, Gerrit Vyn.
Slowly at first, but now quickly picking up steam, Snowy Owl reports continue to mount, signaling a significant movement of this species into the Lower 48 from coast to coast -- or in other words, an irruption year! But what is really causing these birds to move into our area? We need your observations of this species to learn more.
The 1-year-old snowy owl makes his public debut this weekend in the National Aviary's Holiday Bird Show. His name is Fleury in honor of Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury.Pet Tales: There's a new member of the flock at the Aviary
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11330/1192631-62-0.stm#ixzz1ep7XsdUV
Great video from the Cornell Lab Of Ornitholology
Snowy Owls, Ivory Gulls and Sanderlings were the targets on a Lab of Ornithology expedition to collect sound recordings in the Canadian High Arctic. Join Lab staff Gerrit Vyn and Martha Fischer as they trek across barren Bathurst Island recording birds.
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