It's been cold and snowy in Ohio lately, but has it been cold enough for a bird more commonly found in the arctic to be seen? Apparently so, since a snowy owl—a rare visitor to the Buckeye State—has ...

To the joy of wildlife watchers, snowy owls are being seen in Wisconsin more this winter than last, according to the Department of Natural Resources. As of Dec. 17, 60 snowy owls had been documented ...

When I became serious about birding in the 1990s, I wasn’t thinking about milestone birds. Then they started creeping up. The ...

Bird watchers along Lake Huron photographed the bird, which has been nicknamed Rusty and Creamsicle. But there is no consensus about what caused its unusual tint. By James Crugnale Bill Diller, a ...

Whether it swims, crawls, runs or flies, it's not easy to estimate the population of a wildlife species. That challenge is even greater when the animal lives in some of the most remote regions of the ...

Snowy owls look calm and mysterious from the outside, but they have far more odd habits than most people realise. They don’t behave like the typical owls we see in stories or on TV, and many of their ...

During the winter of 2013-14, the eastern U.S. saw the largest incursion of snowy owls in nearly a century. The influx prompted an ongoing study of the birds. The Adirondack Land Trust recently hosted ...