A ghostly white figure perched on a Texas light pole has left residents and birdwatchers stunned. A snowy owl, a bird usually ...

The injured snowy owl has the four pins in his broken wing checked by Laura Wade, center, Richard Burdeaux, Jr., left, and Marianne Hites during a visit to Specialized Care for Avian & Exotic Pets ...

Though snowy owls will eat voles, arctic hares and smaller birds, a study by the Owl Research Institute showed that out of 43,000 prey animals collected at snowy owl breeding sites, 90 percent ...

Owls Fly Almost Silently (image credits: unsplash) You might never hear an owl coming until it’s right above you. Their feathers are uniquely designed to muffle sound, with comb-like edges that break ...

Close-up photo of a barn owl perched, highlighting its delicate plumage in a natural setting. Photo by Jean van der Meulen The barn owl’s ability to rotate its head up to 270 degrees (nearly ...

A snowy owl’s rare journey to California transforms lives and deepens our bond with nature When a rare snowy owl appears in a California suburb—the first sighting in 100 years—it captivates ...

In the neighboring enclosure lives Ghost, a snowy owl found on the side of the road in Soldotna with an injured wing in 2005. Though the vast majority of birds that come through Bird TLC are ...

The great grey and the snowy owl often eat the same prey, but a great grey actually hunts using trigonometry — its ears are offset on its head and it can hear a mouse running eight to 10 inches under ...

But basically when you capture an owl by hand, come in from behind, because owls’ talons only go forward. Then, if you wrap them up in a blanket and get them into a box, they calm down and you ...

Birders and photographers watch a snowy owl way in the distance at the Duxbury Beach Reservation, They are not allowed to get closer than 150 feet, about half a football field away.

Weighing in at 3.5 to 5 pounds and with a wingspan of up to 4.5 feet, the snowy owl i s breathtaking. The adult males are pure white, while the females and juveniles have black speckling.

A snowy owl is caught in the grille of a car in northeastern Minnesota before being rescued by Annabell Whelan on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. Annabell Whelan / AP ...