Snowy Owl (Bubo Scandiacus)

The snow owl lives in the arctic regions. The feathered feet add to the isolation.
Owls cannot turn their eyes, so they always need to turn their head in the direction they want to look.

Picture taken at the pagaaienpark Veldhoven.

comments (4)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

What a beauty, and interesting location, just checked out the park's website. Could be a good target for the next donation :) Posted 13 years ago

Joost Thissen

Lion

@Ferdy. It would indeed be a very good target for a donation. The park really needs support. You can adopt a cage and then the cage gets a sign on it which says like 'cage adopted by jungledragon.com'.
I can recommend a visit too. There are a lot of cages and lots of different birds to see, not only parrots. Posted 13 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  That sounds like a great idea, a great help for the park as well as some marketing for jungledragon. Will definitely visit, probably in spring time.
  
  Now, let us get to 4,000 photos so the donation can be made :) Posted 13 years ago

Ludo Sak

Lion

Sounds like a good idea. I just posted a few:) Impressive young sprout of a snow owl, very cute on your shot. I would almost pat him if not for that powerful beak:) Posted 13 years ago

The Snowy Owl

The Snowy Owl is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who developed binomial nomenclature to classify and organize plants and animals. The bird is also known in North America as the Arctic Owl, Great White Owl or Harfang. Until recently, it was regarded as the sole member of a distinct genus, as ''Nyctea scandiaca'', but mtDNA cytochrome ''b'' sequence data shows that it is very closely related to.. more

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Similar species: Owls

Species identified by Ludo Sak