A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

A scientific committee's decision to assess the snowy owl as threatened is yet another concerning sign of the changes shaping Canada's Arctic, two experts say.

Public lands are one of our country’s great equalizers. It doesn’t matter how much money you have — a billionaire and a bus ...

Popular national parks brace for record-breaking visitation as peak summer travel approaches. But away from the spotlight, a ...

Madison McConnell, as a University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student, conducted one of the few studies of great horned owls in Alaska on the northern edge of their range near Wiseman.

The snowy owl is a case in point. The large, handsome bird breeds across the Arctic, including land in Canada, Alaska, Russia, Norway and Greenland. It's extremely difficult for scientists to ...

Unsurprisingly some of them were about Snowy Owls. The only knowledge I had at that time was from Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute, who had reported from Alaska earlier in the summer ...

(AP) - Annabell Whelan woke up Tuesday and frantically checked on her holiday overnight guest — Nowl the snowy owl, who she rescued from the grille of a car the day before. Whelan was out with her ...

Snowy owls are periodically observed in north Puget Sound in winter, especially when the populations are experiencing “boom” periods in northern Canada and Alaska, according to a WDFW ...

The Owls of Ohio Field Guide calls snowy owls a "rare visitor" to Ohio. The birds are found year-round in the arctic regions of Canada and Alaska. In winter, they migrate south to hunt for food ...