As those of you who live in the northeastern U.S. or eastern Canada already know, it’s been an exceptionally cold and very snowy winter in this part of North America. Here in New Hampshire we experienced the coldest December on…

In 2025 Project SNOWstorm, in cooperation with Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania, contracted with Dr. Diego Gallego García of Argentina to conduct a post-doctoral analysis of an enormous set of spring and summer movement data from snowy owls in the…

I guess it’s finally gotten cold enough up north to push even an old, experienced snowy owl south. Not long after I’d lamented, in our last update, the fact that only two previously tagged owls — Hochelaga and (we presume)…

We have a newly tagged owl on the snowy fields of southern Québec – one with a fitting name. She is Embleme, a first-winter female trapped Jan. 11, 2026, at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport by Falcon Environment. The good folks…

Apologies for the lack of an update for the past week or so. That was partly due to holiday and family travel, but also because it’s been, well, pretty slow. Thus far we have just one tagged owl that’s sending…

The snowy owl is one of 42 species that have been proposed for inclusion under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), an international treaty under U.N. auspices. Snowies were proposed for listing under the…