Rimouski is a first-winter male snowy owl found unable to fly with a dislocated elbow Nov. 20, 2024, near his namesake town of Rimouski in southern Québec. This tricky injury was successfully treated by veterinarian Dr. Guy Fitzgérald at Union Québécoise de Réhabilitation des Oiseaux de Proie (UQROP). Once Rimouski was fully recovered, Dr. Fitzgérald fitted him with a reduced-weight … Read More
One More on the Roster: Salvail
What will likely be the last new SNOWstorm owl of the winter season is watching the world go by from an airport — though fortunately not the biggest, busiest airport she could have chosen. Salvail, as we’ve nicknamed her, is a first-winter female snowy that was trapped at the Trudeau-Montréal airport on Feb. 5, 2025, by our colleagues from Falcon … Read More
Welcome Jolene and Carden
Whether you’re reading this before or after the Big Game, here’s a little Superb Owl news for you all: We have two new snowies to introduce, one of which is in a very familiar place, keeping very familiar company. Jolene and Carden are both first-winter females, both tagged by our stalwart colleagues Charlotte England and Malcolm Wilson of Toronto, as … Read More
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, so sometimes actual work gets in the way. (I hate that.) Starting in the east, Loren has continued to move … Read More
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 at the urging of our team of wildlife veterinarians and the rehabilitation community beyond, which wants to know how well … Read More