Happy Snowy Owl

Snowy owls are mostly white with narrow, sparse brown bars and spots. Their golden colored eyes are rather small for an owl and their toes and claws are thickly covered with feathers. Their dark colored bills are short and strong and sharply pointed. They are also among the largest North American owl species.

They mainly eat mammals, ranging from small rodents to large hares. They are also known to eat birds ranging in size from small songbirds to medium-sized geese and lemmings. An adult owl may eat around 3 to 5 lemmings each day which comes out to 1600 per year.

In North America, snowy owls are found during the breeding season, around May, from the western Aleutians in Alaska to northeastern Manitoba, northern Quebec and northern Labrador in Canada. In the winter, they can regularly be found in the northern United States. Sporadically they can be found as far south as central California as well as in Texas and Florida.

 Unlike most other owl species, snowy owls hunt mainly in the daytime. Snowy owls are highly nomadic and their movements are tied to the abundance of their primary prey species, lemmings. They are known to aggressively defend their nests and will attack those that disturb their nests.

Cool Fact:The snowy owl is the official bird of Quebec, Canada.

Oh Yeah for those of you that don't know what a lemming looks check out the picture below

Source:http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/snowy_owl.php?gclid=CJqSjeLD1aQCFQRM5QodIn74JA#: