Snowy owls are flocking to the northern U.S. in a winter irruption that provides excellent viewing opportunities.

A snowy owl was spotted swooping into Shirley Chisholm State Park over the holiday weekend — marking its first appearance in the Big Apple in years. The rare sighting drove hordes of curious ...

Many years ago, in the blackness of nighttime in the country, I saw an apparition. It was a large, white-winged specter hovering by the hedgerow some 6 feet in the air. Naturally, I took it to be an ...

This year is being called one of the most unprecedented snowy owl invasions of all time. Since Nov. 16, when the first snowy owl was spotted in Kansas, more than 80 sightings of the birds have been ...

DUXBURY – The splendid snowy owls have been back at Duxbury Beach for some time now, and this past Thursday, amateur photographers and others hoping to spot them kept up a steady flow of cars up and ...

A suite of birds resides year-round on the Arctic tundra or on the taiga, the habitat of sparse trees just south of the treeless tundra. These birds include great gray owls, snowy owls and common ...

DUXBURY — Harry Li is not moving. It doesn’t matter that the temperature is 19 degrees, the wind is whipping at 20 miles per hour, and the wind chill is 4 degrees. Li wants to get the Holy Grail of ...

I really shouldn’t say “our” barn owls. They belong to no one. But it’s hard not to feel some pride for the new residents of the owl box we hung expectantly on a jacaranda tree five long years ago. We ...