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Snowy Owl in flight ©Raymond MacDonald

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January 13, 2025

Who Has Been Up to What?

Between the holidays, travel and an impending book deadline, I’ve been a little slow with updates this season, for which I apologize. It’s worth mentioning from time to time that all of us at SNOWstorm do this on the side,…

Atwood

Loren.

Newton

Rimouski

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January 6, 2025

First-ever Global Status Assessment for Snowy Owls Raises Red Flags

For the first time, an assessment of the global conservation status of snowy owls has been completed, confirming that worldwide population was badly overestimated for decades, and indicating that snowy owl populations have declined by roughly a third over the…

International Snowy Owl Working Group

population decline

status assessment

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December 27, 2024

Breaking New Ground

For only the second time in Project SNOWstorm’s 11 seasons of telemetry tracking, we’ve fitted a previously injured, rehabilitated snowy owl with a transmitter to document its movements and long-term survival, a project we’ve been working toward for several years…

Delaware

Rimouski

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December 24, 2024

An Early Bloomer, and Two Nearly Neighbors

Not one but two alumni owls have come back onto the grid in the past two weeks, with a summer’s worth of wandering — and in one case, an awful lot of wandering — in the memory banks of their…

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December 13, 2024

Two in the North

We have our first returning owl of the 2024-25 season, and an update for you on one that — at least so far — has remained out of cell range, but not entirely off the grid. On Dec. 5 we…

Newton

Otter

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December 3, 2024

What We Raise, How it’s Spent

From the beginning, Project SNOWstorm has taken a very unusual approach to funding raptor research. When we launched SNOWstorm in December 2013, it was on a wing and a prayer, a rapid response to an unprecedented and wholly unexpected mega-irruption…