Snowy Owl

             Bubo scandiacus (formerly Nyctea scandiaca)

 

Snowy Owl male Snowy Owl female

The Snowy Owl is well camouflaged in its usual snowy habitat. It lives in the Arctic (is also called the Arctic Owl) throughout summer and ventures to northern Eurasia/America in the winter.
Snowy Owl male Snowy Owl female
The white male Snowy Owl is ghostly in a churchyard at night -- like all owls, it flies silently The female has speckled brown-grey markings on the body (and juveniles have more black)
Snowy Owl Snowy Owl Snowy Owl
Until 2002, the Snowy Owl was classed as its own genus Nyctea scandiacus, but DNA analysis has proved it to be closely related to the "horned" Eagle Owls in Bubo genus.
Snowy Owl Snowy Owl pair
 

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