Bubo acadicus
            
               (L 8"  WS 17" Wt 2.8 oz)
          
         
            
               Summer far north of the Arctic Circle
               of Alaska, Canada and Eurasia ...are
               diurnal, unlike most owls.
          
         
            
               Montrose Harbor
            
               Chicago
            
               19Dec2013
          
         
            
               Snowy owls confirm that not all
               who wander are lost.
            
                        (Noah Stryker)
          
         
            
               Bubo in Latin means eagle-owl;
               acadicus is after Acadia, a former
               French colony in eastern Canada.
          
         
         
            
               Total population
               estimated at 28,000.
          
         
         
            
               © Gerrit Vyn
            
               Macaulay
               Library