Snowy Owl
Bubo scandiacus
Aves
VULNERABLE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 9-10 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Arctic tundra
- Range
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Vulnerable
About
A large white owl of the Arctic tundra, where adult males appear almost entirely white while females and juveniles carry heavy dark barring. Unusually for owls, snowy owls hunt by day, scanning open ground from low perches for lemmings and other small prey.
Life cycle
- 1.eggOne or two eggs are incubated on a high stick nest or cliff ledge, guarded closely by the pair.
- 2.hatchlingA downy hatchling is fed torn meat by its parents and grows quickly in a high nest.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to soar and to make its first kills.
- 4.adultFully grown, hunting on its own with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- Genus
- Bubo
- Species
- Bubo scandiacus