Snowy owls prefer to eat lemmings. And the owls can't get enough of those small, fuzzy rodents, often eating more than 1,600 lemmings a year, or three to five a day.

Instead of 300,000 snowy owls worldwide, there are more like 30,000," said Weidensaul. "We don't know if they are in actual decline, though we suspect so." ...

Fewer snowy owls might move south from their homes on the tundra of the Arctic into Pennsylvania and other northern states this winter, according to a snowy owl-tracking organization run in part ...

Snowy owl data Duluth's David Evans has been banding snowy owls in the Duluth-Superior area for 40 years. Snowy owls nest in the Arctic tundra, but some move south each winter.