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Snowy Owl in flight ©Raymond MacDonald

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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…

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December 1, 2024

The 2024 Arctic Report

Welcome to the first update of Project SNOWstorm’s 11th season of snowy owl research. Whether you’ve been with us since our first winter in 2013-14, or have just learned about our work, we welcome your interest. It’s shaping up to…

Arctic

Bylot Island

fledglings

July 8, 2024

Feeling the Heat? Plan a Winter Getaway to Support Project SNOWstorm

Yes, it’s the middle of summer, and a lot of the country is hot as a frying pan. But winter (and snowy owl season) isn’t that far away — and again this year, we’re offering a way to see some…

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April 25, 2024

Rodenticides and Snowy Owls: A Growing Problem

The death in New York City in late February of Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl made news all over the world; many people had been rooting for this captive-bred male, who escaped from the Central Park Zoo in a year earlier…

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April 8, 2024

And Then There Were…None?

Sorry for the lapse in updates; I was traveling last week, then last Thursday and Friday we here in northern New England got walloped with up to two feet of heavy, wet snow, which brought down uncountable trees and limbs,…

Atwood

Loren.

Newton

Otter

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March 21, 2024

Northward? Yes and No

Although Newton and Loren remain more or less where they’ve been (in Newton’s case, all winter), Atwood has pushed well to the north while Hochelaga has, in all likelihood, slipped off the cell network for the summer. On March 20,…

Atwood

Hochelaga

Loren.

Newton

Otter