One owl reportedly broke through snow hard enough to support a 176-pound human. Great grey owls are found in the northern hemisphere in North America and Eurasia. In North America, their range ...

Watch a great gray owl hunt in Finland The acoustic camera data showed that where a sound seems to come from depends on the hearer’s height above the snow, their horizontal distance to the sound ...

The secret to the great grey owl’s hunting success is its enormous ... It's thought she can hear its heartbeat beneath the foot of snow. Special structures on her feathers cut the air to ...

In a Manitoba forest, a great grey owl sits atop a spindly branch. Then, wings outstretched, it descends from its perch, gliding over the blanket of snow. Specially adapted feathers allow it to do ...

The great gray owl has long been thought of as a sentinel of the Alaska wilderness, keeping watch over snow-laden forests as far north as the Brooks Range, well away from human populations.

While sitting on a log watching a great ... lucky as the owl glided off its perch, drifted to the rodents hiding spot, and captured the vole with its talons through six inches of snow.

And here is his account of their hunting prowess: “Their phenomenal sense of hearing pinpoints voles under a deep layer of snow.” Seeing a great gray owl plunge into a snowbank and re-emerge ...

That was her first rescue. It happened around 11 a.m. when she spotted an injured great gray owl on the side of Highway 61, near Two Harbors. She called Wildwoods Rehabilitation Center who told ...

A great gray owl hunts from the top of a spruce tree along Minnesota Highway 61 on Saturday in Two Harbors. The great gray owl is a true owl, and is the world's largest species of owl by length.