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March 15, 2024

Hochelaga Update

Just a quick bit of news for everyone who (like me, I must admit) might have been worried about Hochelaga, the adult male who likes to winter near the Montréal airport and who has been largely out of touch the…

Atwood

Hochelaga

Loren.

Newton

Otter

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March 13, 2024

On the Move (or Not)

The days are getting longer, and at least one of our tagged owls has started to head north — and that one, Atwood, is a bird whose locations we’d been masking because there was a bit more photographer activity in…

Atwood

Hochelaga

Loren.

Newton

Otter

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March 3, 2024

Introducing Atwood

On Feb. 25, SNOWstorm collaborators Charlotte England and Malcolm Wilson tagged an adult female snowy owl, which they nicknamed Atwood for a nearby small town in southern Ontario. She weighed a healthy 2,170 grams (4.8 pounds) and based on her…

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February 28, 2024

An Important New Study on Lemming Cycles

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of small rodents, especially lemmings, to snowy owls. Although snowies eat a remarkable variety of prey during the winter, from voles, muskrats and rabbits to waterbirds like ducks, gulls and occasionally even birds as…

lemmings

population cycles

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February 26, 2024

All Back in Touch

Just a very quick update to say that all three of our tagged owls are where we’d expect them to be. After going dark for a week, Hochelaga’s transmitter picked up enough solar juice to reconnect regularly starting Feb. 20,…

Hochelaga

Loren.

Newton

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February 19, 2024

North, Then Not

As we noted last week, both of our veteran snowy owls, Newton and Hochelaga, have been off the grid for a week or two. In my most recent update, I noted that both had very low battery voltages before they…

Hochelaga

Loren.

Newton