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 ...

A combination of preparation, luck and patience paid off for a hobby photographer who managed to shoot a dramatic photograph ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CLEVELAND (WJW) — A really cool part of ...

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 ...

The rare sighting drove hordes of curious photographers, birders and wildlife enthusiasts — hoping for a glimpse of the majestic yellow-eyed bird — to the Fountain Avenue side of the Brooklyn nature ...