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Snowy owl, bubo scandiacus, flying on a clear day. White spread wings like an angel. Quebec's official bird. Vulnerable specie.

A closeup shot of a beautiful snowy owl in the snowy field in the daylight

The Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) (Bubo scandiacus) is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus

$With a heart-shaped face, beige back and wings and pure white underparts, the Barn Owl is a distinctive and much-loved countryside bird.\n\nThe barn owl is predominantly nocturnal, but in Great Britain it can also hunt by day. Barn owls specialise in hunting animals on the ground, and nearly all of their food consists of small mammals, which they locate by sound, their hearing being very acute.\n\nThe owls usually mate for life unless one of the pair is killed, whereupon a new pair bond may be formed. Breeding results in a clutch of eggs, averaging about four in number, being laid in a nest in a hollow tree, old building, or fissure in a cliff. The female does all the incubation, and she and the young chicks are reliant on the male for food.\n\nBarn Owls also often live up to their name, inhabiting barns and other old, abandoned buildings, so keep an eye out for them there. However Barn Owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species, meaning it's illegal to intentionally or recklessly disturb them, and it's also illegal to release them into the wild in the UK.$

A Snowy owl takes flight during the Winter of 2020 in Columbus, Ohio in an open field in search of prey.

A male Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus), often dubbed the 'Gray Ghost' due to its striking pale gray plumage, is seen enjoying its meal in Delta, B.C., Canada.

Snowy Owl (Bubo Scandiacus), making a landing from a flight! It is returning from a flight, to a birch tree trunk.

Bubo scandiacus - The snowy owl is a species of bird in the Strigidae family.

This bird, native to the arctic, became an overnight celebrity when it was spotted in a Cypress neighborhood in Orange County, California. Thousands of miles away from where snowy owls typically reside, this was an extremely rare sighting. News stations, photographers, and local residents flocked to see this highly rare bird in such an unusual environment. I captured these mysterious photos of this arctic creature as it perched in the last place you would expect it to: on suburban homes in front of palm trees.

Snowy owl, bubo scandiacus, in flight. Rare bird.

A great gray owl flies over a field with trees in the background in a snow storm in the winter time in Northern Alberta, Canada

Snowy Owl Winter in Saskatchewan Canada Beautiful

The Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) is an infrequent visitor to the Pacific Northwest. Rare visitation, known as an irruption is caused by over-population in the owl's native range in the Arctic where they normally winter. This juvenile owl was photographed in early winter at Damon Point near Ocean Shores, Washington State, USA.

Snowy Owl patiently gazing at the camera

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