Nyctea scandiaca (Snowy Owl)
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Description: Species account from the Animal Diversity Web.
ADW: Nyctea scandiaca: INFORMATION By Kari Kirschbaum and Rebecca Atkinson Snowy owls have a circumpolar distribution. They breed in coastal Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, as well as in northern Scandinavia, Russia, southern Novaya Zemlya and northern Siberia. In winter, snowy owls can be found in Canada and the northern United States, sporadically further south into the U.S., in Iceland, the British Isles, northern Europe, central Russia, northern China and Sakhalin. While typically found in the arctic, periodic irruptions of "excess populations" occasionally move south, driven by a lack of food resources in the tundra. Snowy owl fossils have been found as far south as the Tropic of Cancer, and are believed to have originated in that region.
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| NS | Name Servers: DNS1.ITD.UMICH.EDU 141.211.144.15 DNS2.ITD.UMICH.EDU 141.211.125.15 |
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| Date | activated: 07-Oct-1985 last updated: 14-Feb-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |