When a friend told biologist Bettina Eastman Wednesday that a snowy owl had been spotted in Cypress, she immediately drove up from her home in Huntington Beach. Dozens of people had already gathered ...

For now, it’s a holiday mystery. A snowy owl, certainly not native to Southern California, has made an appearance in a residential Cypress neighborhood, drawing avid ornithologists and curious bird ...

There's a chance of snow in parts of Wisconsin this week. But the season's first gifts of the Arctic, documented and true, are already in the state. Four snowy owls have been seen and photographed in ...

What brought the owl to the city of Cypress, in Orange County, remains a mystery. By Michael Levenson The forbidding frozen wilderness of the high Arctic tundra is the natural home of the snowy owl, a ...