Quick Facts |
By: Kelly Pena
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- There's 290,000 snowy owls in the world
- Apart from arctic owls they are called snowy owls, great white owl, ghost owl, and tundra ghost.
- Female snowy owls are larger than males
- Average wingspan is 170cm
- Snowy owls breed in Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, northern Russia, and Greenland
- Snowy owls live in the open arctic tundra
- Average amount of eggs produced are 6
- Snowy owls fly, are solitary and very territorial
- Average amount of lemmings killed by an arctic owl is about 1,600 a year
- Protected by the U.S as a migratory bird