If you’ve been following SNOWstorm for a while you doubtless know that our necropsy and toxicology research has shown a widespread and growing threat to snowy owls from second-generation anti-coagulant rodenticides (SGARs), which threaten an enormous array of wild raptors…

It seems almost everyone got the same message. After months of barely moving, even Emblème and Fulgence, both youngsters who are usually the last to migrate north, lit out this past week. Perth had already shifted up to Georgian Bay,…

Normally, the cutoff for tagging new owls for Project SNOWstorm is early to mid-March, since we’re primarily interested in winter movement data, and by late March, many snowies are already starting to head north. Once they get out of southern…

After a false start last week, when she did a there-and-back-again loop away from her winter territory, Perth started what looks like serious migration north late last week. March 20 she left the area around West Monkton, ON, flying east…

The official first day of spring doesn’t come until Friday, March 20 (at 10:46 a.m., to be precise), but some of our snowy owls are already feeling its tug as the days lengthen and the sun climbs higher in the…

Perseverance pays off, and the sterling example this winter has been our Ontario colleagues, Charlotte England and Malcolm Wilson, who have spent weeks trekking all around the southwest of the province trying to trap adult snowy owls to deploy transmitters.…