Snowy Owl Telemetry Research Project

Maps of Transmitter Locations

Each of these maps show the movement of 1 or more Snowy Owls:

• Jan 29 - July 26, 2011: Owl 99907 was equipped with a transmitter and released on Duxbury Beach on January 29. It stayed near Boston's Logan Airport all through February, then flew north to the St. Lawrence River, where it stayed for about two months. This is an area where other owls have also been recorded spending time on their way north to their breeding grounds. Between May 10 and May 13, it flew over 400 miles northwest, to the Opinaca Reservoir east of James Bay in Quebec Province. It has stayed in this area all summer.
• Feb 17, 2009 - Mar 8, 2010: Owl 19192's location estimates indicate that overall she is still in the general vicinity of where she has been since about January, 10 2010—in the southern area of Hudson Bay.
  Detailed Winter map.
• Feb 17 - Nov 24, 2009: This owl ended up on the very western tip of Baffin Island at the end of June, and stayed in that area until September 8, when she moved east about 160 km from her summer location. She is now moving south near the eastern edge of Hudson Bay.
  Detailed Summer map
  Detailed Fall map.
• Mar 21 - Sep 25, 2009: This owl flew several hundred miles north of Québec City, but by mid-July, the transmitter was no longer showing movement.
• Feb 5 - Aug 13, 2006: One of these owls' tracks ended on May 27 near the Robert-Bourassa Reservoir in Québec Province; the other flew to the very northernmost point of Québec Province and spent the summer.
• Jan 18, 2002 - Aug 2, 2003: This map tracks 3 owls; one spends the summer flying around northern Québec Province, then winters along the St. Lawrence; one stops moving on June 22, 2002 after flying to Baffin Island. The third showed no movement after May 25, 2002, when it was about halfway between Québec City and the Hudson Strait.
• Mar 25, 2001 - Dec 4, 2002: This map tracks 5 owls, who migrate between Massachusetts, the St. Lawrence, Québec, Newfoundland and Baffin Island.Two stop transmitting over the summer of 2001.