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March 31, 2025

One More on the Team

I promised one more surprise, here at the very end of the season, and her name is Toronto. She’s a four-year-old female snowy owl who is back in the wild after an mishap with a high-rise building, and a helping…

Carden

Jolene

Rimouski

Salvail

Toronto

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March 27, 2025

Scattering With the Season

And just like that, spring has sprung. Last week’s milder weather seems to have triggered a bit of a mass exodus. After showing very little of the pre-migratory restlessness we sometimes see in late winter, and for the most part…

Atwood

Carden

Jolene

Loren.

Newton

Otter

Rimouski

Salvail

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March 8, 2025

One More on the Roster: Salvail

What will likely be the last new SNOWstorm owl of the winter season is watching the world go by from an airport — though fortunately not the biggest, busiest airport she could have chosen. Salvail, as we’ve nicknamed her, is…

Atwood

Carden

Jolene

Loren.

Newton

Rimouski

Salvail

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February 9, 2025

Welcome Jolene and Carden

Whether you’re reading this before or after the Big Game, here’s a little Superb Owl news for you all: We have two new snowies to introduce, one of which is in a very familiar place, keeping very familiar company. Jolene…

January 30, 2025

Hochelaga (Probably Can’t) Phone Home

One of the challenges with using technology is that it changes. Which is good — the miniaturization of batteries and other tech has allowed scientists to make ever-smaller and lighter transmitters to track ever-smaller and lighter animals. But sometimes technology…

January 28, 2025

No, We’re Not Dyeing Owls Red

On Jan. 24, birder and photographer James Robinson Bill Diller photographed a snowy owl in Huron County, Michigan, that appears to have been liberally coated with some sort of orangish-red paint or dye. After the photos appeared on social media…