Sexing snowy owls and estimating their ages depends on their plumage. Young females are heavily barred with black, males less so. Older females retain some barring, while adult male owls are ...

An all-white snowy owl is pretty much always an older male (apologies to Harry Potter, but Hedwig was a male all along.) These birds are large and can be spotted from very far away. While they are ...

When there’s a lot of food, specifically lemmings — a hamsterlike rodent that the owls feast on and male owls may even present to a female in courtship — there tends to be more fledged owls.

Through binoculars, I could see it was a male snowy owl. His body was covered in thick, white down, offset by a black beak, black talons and a few black dots on his feathers. His head swiveled ...

Male owls respond more strongly to the high-pitched calls that simulate lighter individuals, confirming that territorial males attend to pitch information advertising body weight in the calls of ...

"So, I knew that I would need flight feathers and tail feathers from a second year male snowy owl," Arent said. She whittled pieces of bamboo to fit into the shafts of the replacement feathers and ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) - A new owl is joining the Seneca Park Zoo family. Tundra, a six-year-old male snowy owl, will join the female snowy owl, Winter,at the zoo. The two owls will be kept in the ...

The juvenile male owl, who likely hatched last summer, was the first confirmed sighting of a snowy owl here in several years, according to Jeff Aufmann, vice president of the McHenry County ...

They have wingspans of 4 to 5 feet. Male snowy owls are barred with dark brown when they’re young and get whiter as they get older, whereas females keep some dark markings throughout their lives ...