Join us as we research the annual movements of Snowy Owls
Project SNOWstorm uses innovative science to understand snowy owls, and to engage people in their conservation through outreach and education.
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
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
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
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…
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
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…