Salvail

Salvail is a first-winter female snowy owl trapped Feb. 5, 2025, at the the Trudeau-Montreal International Airport, held for several weeks for rest and weight gain at Union québécoise de réhabilitation des oiseaux de proie (UQROP), and tagged by Dr. Guy Fitzgérald before being relocated away from the airport and released Feb. 26, 2025, near the Salvail River in southern … Read More

Rimouski

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

Bleuet

Bleuet is a juvenile female snowy owl trapped by Falcon Environmental at Trudeau-Montréal International Airport, fitted with a transmitter by Dr. Guy Fitzgérald of the University of Montréal, and relocated Feb. 16, 2022, 65 km (40 miles) to farmland west of Lanoraie, QC, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. She was named for the many blueberry fields … Read More

Nicolet

Nicolet is an after-second-year (at least three-year-old) female snowy owl, trapped by Falcon Environmental at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport in Québec, and tagged by Dr. Guy Fitzgérald at the University of Montréal. She was relocated 120 km (75 miles) northeast to the south shore of the St. Lawrence River and released Dec. 18, 2021, near the village of Nicolet, for which … Read More

Odanak

Odanak is an adult female snowy owl originally banded in 2014 at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport. She was recaptured there in December 2021 by Falcon Environmental, tagged with a GPS/GSM transmitter by Dr. Guy Fitzgérald at the University of Montréal, and relocated 110 km (70 miles) northeast to the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, where she was released … Read More

Aimé

Aimé is an adult female trapped at the Montréal-Trudeau Airport, tagged by Dr. Guy Fitzgérald from the University of Montréal, and relocated 80 km to the south shore of the St. Lawrence River Nov. 29, 2021, near the community of Saint-Aimé. She is one of more than 40 airport relocation owls whose movements we have tracked to learn how best … Read More

Hochelaga

Hochelaga is named for the original Iroquoian village at what is now Montréal. He was trapped by biologist Julie Lecours of Falcon Environmental on March 2, 2021, at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport, was already banded, and records showed Falcon had originally trapped him at the airport on March 4, 2016, by which time he was already mature and almost completely … Read More

Alderbrooke

Alderbrooke is a juvenile female trapped Dec. 9, 2020, at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport by Falcon Environmental, tagged by Rebecca McCabe and moved from the airfield as part of Project SNOWstorm’s research into the best ways to relocate snowy owls so they remain away from airports. She is named for one of the sanctuaries of Bird Protection Québec, which is … Read More

Dorval

Dorval is an adult female at least seven years old, originally banded in Jan. 2017 at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport in Québec, and trapped there again Jan. 11, 2020, by Falcon Environmental Services. She was fitted with a GPS/GSM transmitter by Rebecca McCabe and relocated to southern Ontario, though she quickly returned to the airport. Dorval’s transmitter was paid for by … Read More

Montreal

Montréal is an adult female snowy owl, originally banded Nov. 8, 2018, at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport by Guy Fitzgerald of Union Québécoise de Réhabilitation des Oiseaux de Proie, color-marked and relocated for her safety. She was retrapped at the airport Nov. 25, 2019 by Falcon Environmental Services, tagged by Rebecca McCabe with a CTT hybrid GSM/Argos transmitter, and again … Read More