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.…

We have a new transmittered owl, and the very surprising return of our oldest veteran, back south for the first time in years. The newbie first. Fulgence is a second-year (first-winter) male snowy owl, rescued from an industrial waste pool…

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 Emblème, a first-winter female trapped Jan. 11, 2026, at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport by Falcon Environment. The good folks…