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The cause of this unusual color might never be fully understood. Image courtesy of Julie Maggert =========================================================================== Birders in Michigan are scratching their heads over unusual photos of a snowy owl. The animal is perfectly perched on a telegraph pole, but instead of snow white and black feathers, the owl's feathers are colored orange. Spotted in Huron County, the bird was photographed by amateur wildlife photographer Julie Maggert. Since sharing the images on social media, theories have been rife about what could have caused the bird's feathers to become orange. One theory suggested that the owl had become covered in...

Watch out, wildlife photographers ~ a road traffic camera in Canada might be giving you a run for your money. The CCTV camera captured a snowy owl in flight, looking stunning against a white winter background above a Montreal freeway.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Reports from tens of thousands of bird-counting volunteers show a southern invasion of Arctic-dwelling snowy owls has spread to 25 states, and frigid cold is causing unusual movements of waterfowl. Results are still coming in from the four-day annual Great Backyard Bird Count sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, National Audubon Society and Bird Studies Canada. Sponsors say the event, which ended Monday, drew participants from a record 127 countries, surpassing last year’s 110. Most were from the U.S. and Canada. Preliminary results show more than 2,500 snowy owls being reported in 25 states and...

Park services specialist Peter Maholland says bird watchers have been flocking to northeast Florida to catch a glimpse of the white bird.... They are the largest North American owl, and they're typically found in Canada and the Arctic.