Snowy Owls: A Project SNOWStorm Update

Join Maine Audubon’s second annual All Chapter Speaker event on Thursday Feb. 5 at 6pm. We’re hosting acclaimed author and naturalist Scott Weidensaul for a discussion about Snowy Owls and his work with Project SNOWStorm.

To join us for a lively, free, virtual discussion about these incredible birds, register here.

Project SNOWstorm launched in 2013, and is now one of the world’s largest collaborative research projects focusing on Snowy Owls, staffed by a largely volunteer team of scientists, banders, and wildlife veterinarians. Project SNOWstorm uses innovative science to understand Snowy Owls, and to engage people in their conservation through outreach and education.

Weidensaul has written more than 30 books, including his widely acclaimed Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (North Point 1999), which was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. In addition to writing about wildlife, Weidensaul is an active field researcher whose work focuses on bird migration. Weidensaul co-founded Project SNOWstorm, which uses cutting-edge tracking technology to study snowy owls.

His new book, The Return of the Oystercatcher, due to be published in April 2026, is available for pre-order.