Here on this eve of Christmas, as many of us prepare to gather with close family and friends, I assume everyone out there is asking the same thing: “why haven’t we gotten a single Christmas Bird Count ...

A winter bird count links tradition, science and climate data — with one cold day ending in a rare snowy owl sighting.

Irruptions happen when young snowy owls, pushed out by older, dominant birds in the Arctic, travel farther south in search of ...

This year's snowy owl migration is marked by the bird's recent classification as a threatened species by the Committee on the ...

None of the counts in Northeastern Oregon is quite as venerable as the event itself. But some have extensive histories with ...

I’d been making plans since I first heard the snowy owls landed on Lake Michigan’s shore, but many things postponed our search.

Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) have submitted proposals to add 42 ...

What started as a phone call last summer turned into a crown, cash prize, bragging rights and a spot atop the Food Network’s ...

The possibility of seeing each of those types, and quite a lot more avian variety besides, is among the reasons that each ...

A nonprofit science group has discovered a great deal about the species over the past decade, but the irruption shows that ...

In late autumn, cold air masses come barreling down from the Canadian Arctic like an atmospheric avalanche, bringing with ...