Project SNOWstorm is grateful for all the support over the past two seasons and we are looking forward to an exciting 3rd season! Check back in next month as we blog more about the Snowy Owl research that has led to the Project SNOWstorm collaboration, the researchers at the heart of those projects, and more about what we hope … Read More
On the Shoulders of Giants
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of periodic looks at the history of winter Snowy Owl research, and profiles of some of the long-standing researchers who are part of the Project SNOWstorm team. In this installment, Dave Brinker shares the story of Operation Snowy Owl in the 1960s. After two winters, Project SNOWstorm has accomplished a … Read More
A New Face, and an Old Friend
The 2015-16 season of Project SNOWstorm is off to an exciting start, with our first new owl of the winter — and the return of one of the very first snowies that we tagged two years ago. New bird first…on Dec. 8, SNOWstorm collaborator (and longtime snowy owl researcher) Tom McDonald of Rochester, NY, caught an adult female snowy on … Read More