Owls are some of the best-known birds in the world, famous for their hooting calls and their excellent eyesight. There are ...

Snowy owls from the Arctic are making a rare visit to Western Washington this year. The Seattle Times reports that the owls have been spotted from Grays Harbor County to an industrial park in Renton ...

The Snowy Owl has vanished from Sweden, marking the first time in 20 years that the country has officially lost a bird ...

A pair of snowy owls spotted along a Lake Michigan beach has drawn curious crowds and sparked happy speculation about how long the Arctic birds of prey will call Chicago home. Word of the two owls has ...

Irruptions happen when young snowy owls, pushed out by older, dominant birds in the Arctic, travel farther south in search of space during their first winter. These movements are closely linked to ...

BOSTON — Every winter, Arctic snowy owls fly thousands of miles south to Boston Logan International Airport. And every season, Norman Smith drives less than an hour to try to snatch them up. “I’ve ...

DUXBURY — Harry Li is not moving. It doesn’t matter that the temperature is 19 degrees, the wind is whipping at 20 miles per hour, and the wind chill is 4 degrees. Li wants to get the Holy Grail of ...

Whether it swims, crawls, runs or flies, it's not easy to estimate the population of a wildlife species. That challenge is even greater when the animal lives in some of the most remote regions of the ...

NORTHAMPTON — Lily Rogers, 14, had tears in her eyes. She had never seen a snowy owl before, but as an avid birder, she’d ...

The deaths of two snowy owls, one in Rhode Island and one in Massachusetts, have saddened bird watchers and left some wondering if the birds were victims of bird flu. A snowy owl was reported dead ...