The snowy owl in Central Park has its own claim to fame. The last recorded sighting of the species in Central Park was in 1890 (don’t reverse that and think, 1980. No, that’s 1890).

After the photos were taken in December, the owls continued to hang around until mid-January, Mamalis said. The snowy owls have since moved on from Assateague, he said.

PHOTOS: Snowy owl caught at BWI. ... The snowy owl was seen near Runway 4-22 on Dec. 29, say officials. A U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services wildlife technician set a trap for the bird.

A traffic camera in Quebec captured striking images of a snowy owl in flight on Jan. 3. A series of frames were taken of the bird over Montreal’s Highway 40 and shared on Facebook by Robert ...

A snowy owl sighting in Montreal is not that unusual. “Actually, it’s fairly common to see them in the Montreal area,” Barbara Fei, director of the McGill Bird Observatory, told the Gazette.

Birdwatchers take photos of a rare snowy owl near Union Station in Washington D.C., on Jan. 12, 2022. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images. Matt Felperin, a naturalist from Northern Virginia, ...

Joyce Bassett, a photographer and Times Union news editor, tried for weeks to capture an image of a snowy owl she knew to be in the area. She finally found him Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. And she ...

The male, nearly all-white owl with the mesmerizing yellow eyes is becoming known for his willingness to seemingly pose for pictures and on-lookers for hours at a time.

Snowy Owls have been invading Northeast Ohio in what's being called a biological phenomenon. After our first report on Wednesday people around Northeast Ohio have been sending us pictures of their ...

Stopped in traffic as snow began to fall at dusk on Rollins Road in Round Lake Beach, Bryan Ross glanced at the top of a street lamp. And then he said he got goose bumps. A snowy owl had landed ...

Greg Lawrence is a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. He has ...

Photographer William A. Canosa captured shots of this snowy owl who was visiting Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison Wednesday. Canosa was finishing up taking a few photographs of a red ...