SASKTODAY.CA — Have you ever heard of a "snowy owl eruption"? It got bird nerds excited, and now you can find out more about what they are doing, all while learning more about snowy owls than you thought it was possible to know!
Saskatchewan Prairie Conservation Action Plan's YouTube channel has a webinar you can watch if you've ever had a question about snowy owls, one of the most fascinating birds of North America.
The winter of 2013-14 saw the largest invasion of snowy owls into eastern North America in perhaps a century -- and marked an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about these mysterious Arctic hunters. Author and researcher Scott Weidensaul shares the story of Project SNOWstorm -- how a huge, collaborative research effort focused on snowy owls came together in a few frantic weeks, funded with the help of people from around the world, and which a decade later continues to make discoveries and unexpected insights into the life and ecology of this great white raptor.
Every month, PCAP hosts a Native Prairie Speaker Series Webinar about species at risk or prairie conservation. These live broadcasts can be watched from any location for free. Webinars are recorded and uploaded to the PCAP YouTube channel.
Scott Weidensaul is the author of more than two dozen books on natural history, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist "Living on the Wind" and his latest, the New York Times bestseller "A World on the Wing." Weidensaul is a contributing editor for Audubon and writes for a variety of other publications, including BWD and Living Bird. He is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society and an active field researcher, studying saw-whet owl migration for more than two decades, as well as winter hummingbirds, bird migration in Alaska, and the winter movements of snowy owls through Project SNOWstorm, which he co-founded. He lives in New Hampshire.
Watch Caught in the SNOWstorm
