Apologies for the lack of an update for the past week or so. That was partly due to holiday and family travel, but also because it’s been, well, pretty slow. Thus far we have just one tagged owl that’s sending…

The snowy owl is one of 42 species that have been proposed for inclusion under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), an international treaty under U.N. auspices. Snowies were proposed for listing under the…

The first returning tagged snowy owl of the new season has reappeared on the grid – and he’s a veteran with one of the oldest transmitters still deployed on any of our birds. It’s Hochelaga, an adult male with a…

As we start a new winter season of snowy owl tracking, something that has only been possible over the past 14 12 seasons because of the continued support of a lot of people, I wanted to take a moment and…

Every year, it seems that birders and photographers – whether intentionally or not – put more and more pressure on snowy owls in winter. So we we’re grateful that Melissa Groo, one of the most respected conservation photographers in the…

Sometimes it’s nice to be wrong. When the Project SNOWstorm team held its annual planning meeting in August, there had been no reports from the Arctic suggesting there’d been a significant snowy owl breeding event anywhere – at least, anywhere…