Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 Assigns Snowy Owls to December Birds

Summary: Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 assigns snowy owls to December birds who anguish the National Audubon Society as vulnerable Arctic, near-Arctic wildlife.

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John James Audubon (April 26, 1785-Jan. 27, 1851) accentuates, in his plate 121 to Birds of America, the abundant white feathering all the way down snowy owl legs and feet to their black claws and around their black beaks and black-pupiled yellow eyes; Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) male (upper) and female (lower) under synonym of Strix nyctea; Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S., F.L.S.; Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, London [1831-1834]; John James Audubon, The Birds of America, No. 25, Plate CXXI: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 assigns snowy owls to December birds whose Arctic, near-Arctic vulnerability as wildlife abiding from Unitedstatesian Alaska eastward, through northwestern Canada, into Nunavut anguishes the National Audubon Society.

The Strigiformes (from Greek στρίξ, “screecher” and Latin -fōrmis, “-shaped”) order member breeds May through September in tundra (from Lappish тӯннтрэ via Russian ту́ндра, “treeless flatlands”). The Strigidae (from Greek στρίξ, “screecher” and -ειδής, “-like” via Latin -idæ) family member chooses level, open country and islands with huntable, nestable headlands and hummocks. Bubo scandiacus (from Latin būbō, “[Eurasian eagle] owl [Bubo bubo] and scandiacus, “Scandinavia’s”), described by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), dwells solitarily apart parenting.

Maximum 9-year life expectancies entail experiencing the Canadian Arctic Archipelago May through September; coastal northern Alaska, Yukon Territory, Northwest Terriroties, Nunavut and southeastern Baffin Island year-round.

Arctic, near-Arctic northernmost coastlines along Alaskan United States, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway and Russia accommodate breeding areas of snowy owls from May through September even as Alaskan southern coastlines, Canadian, Candian and Unitedstatesian border-state, Finnish, Greenlandic Norwegian, Russian and Swedish nothern interiors account for non-breeding areas between October and April; May 26, 2012, Cypron Map Series range map of Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus); adapted from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World 2021 Bubo scandiacus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2: The Emirr/MapLab, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Sometimes snowy owls fly southward for overwintering October through April in the other Canadian provinces and territories, the southern Alaskan coastline and the Unitedstatesian border states.

Female snowy owls gestate single-brooded, 2.24-inch- (57-millimeter-) long, 1.77-inch- (45-millimeter-) wide, white eggs on such semi-raised sites with panoramic views as boulders, crag ledges and hummocks. They house 3 to 10 or maximally 15 eggs in nest-honed scrapes hollowed in ground dirt or vegetation and having no lining apart feathery, mossy fragments. Their first egg-laying initiates mothers-to-be incubating for 32 to 37 days in 15- to 20-inch (38.1- to 50.8-centimeter) diameter scrapes short-elliptical to sub-elliptical, semi-glossy, smooth eggs.

Snowy owls as December birds on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 perhaps jubilate their juveniles journeying through maximum 37-day incubations, 30-day hatchings, 4-week leave-taking, 9-week fledging.

No marks such as blotching, mottling, speckling or spotting add any color to each snowy owl mothers-to-be's 3 to 10, or maximmally 11 through 15, annual, short-elliptical to sub-elliptical, semi-glossy, smooth, 2.24-inch- (57-millimeter-) long, 1.77-inch- (45-millimeter-) wide, white eggs; Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, image of snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) eggs, collected June 15, 1920, at Karesuando, Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, northernmost Sweden; Collection Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut (Oct. 18, 1920-March 17, 2007), Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT), Jardin des Plantes de Toulouse, quartier de Busca-Montplaisir, Toulouse center, Haute-Garonne department, Occitania region, southwest France: Roger Culos (Ercé), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Egg incubations, egg hatchings and nestling broodings before leave-taking and fledging kindle snow owl fathers-to-be and fathers keeping their breeding-season mates and their parenting-season chicks fed.

Snowy owl fathers and mothers look for fish, small birds and such small mammals as lemmings for themselves and their chicks even after leave-taking and fledging. Altricial (from Latin alere, “to nourish” via Latin altor, “nourisher”) newborns manifest short, soft, thick, white down to their claws and bare-patched backs to leg joints. Six- to 10-day-old snowy owl nestlings net as their first plumage blackening brown-gray, down-like, loose feathering and preying-friendly black-gray bills and perching- and preying-friendly black-gray claws.

June- through October-born snowy owls obtain occupancies outside birth nests July through November and August through December flights like Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 December birds.

Snowy owl fathers-to-be and fathers aid their mates with egg incubations and hatchings and with nestling broodings until just before the couple's chicks, as 3- to 4-week-olds, alternate between birth nests and adjacent pre-fledging and fledging nests. Snowy owl mothers-to-be and mothers allocate their time, from gestating, incubating and nourishing through preparing for flight, fledging and independece, to their chicks; Thursday, July 27, 2006, 15:29, image of mother with check at Calgary Zoo, St. George's Island, Bridgeland-Riverside neighborhood, northeast of Calgary's Downtown/East Village neighborhood, southwestern Calgary; western Canada: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Juvenile and physically and sexually mature snowy owls pursue hunting- and migrating-friendly slow, steady flight patterns with deep, strong wingbeats and their glides positioned around flaps.

Juvenile snowy owls quarter black beaks and claws; black-pupiled yellow eyes; white faces; dusky-barred breasts and bellies; white-feathered legs, brown- and gray-flecked upperparts, napes and crowns. Mature snowy owls reveal dark beaks and claws; dark-pupiled yellow eyes; white-faced, large, round heads; near-all-white breasts, feet, legs; and variable-barred backs, tails, underparts and wings. Twenty- to 27-inch (51- to 68-centimeter-) long, 3.5- to 6.5-pound (1.6- to 2.9-kilogram) bodies with 4.25- to 5.25-foot (1.3- to 1.6-meter) wingspans suggest mature snowy owls.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 treasures as December birds snowy owls, as barred or all-white males, tendering deep, doubled or serialized hoots; hisses; rattles; and whistles.

Floyd Davidson approaches juvenile and mature appearances in his image of "Young Snowy Owl on the tundra at Utqiagvik, Alaska," whereby "Snowy owls lose their black feathers with age, although individual females may retain some"; Sunday, Sep. 24, 2006, 17:41, image of young snowy owl on tundra at Utqiagvik (Inupiaq: Utqiaġvik, as of Dec. 1, 2016; formerly Barrow), North Slope Borough, northwestern coastal Alaska, Arctic Circle: Floyd Davidson, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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John James Audubon (April 26, 1785-Jan. 27, 1851) accentuates, in his plate 121 to Birds of America, the abundant white feathering all the way down snowy owl legs and feet to their black claws and around their black beaks and black-pupiled yellow eyes; Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) male (upper) and female (lower) under synonym of Strix nyctea; Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S., F.L.S.; Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, London [1831-1834]; John James Audubon, The Birds of America, No. 25, Plate CXXI: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:121_Snowy_Owl.jpg; No copyright--United States (NoC--US), via ULS (University of Pittsburgh Library System) @ https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3Aaud0121; Birds of America, vol. I (1840), No. 6, Plate 28, opposite page 114, Not in copyright, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40383143; Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/8567723075/

Arctic, near-Arctic northernmost coastlines along Alaskan United States, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway and Russia accommodate breeding areas of snowy owls from May through September even as Alaskan southern coastlines, Canadian, Candian and Unitedstatesian border-state, Finnish, Greenlandic Norwegian, Russian and Swedish nothern interiors account for non-breeding areas between October and April; May 26, 2012, Cypron Map Series range map of Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus); adapted from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World 2021 Bubo scandiacus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 @ https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22689055/205475036: The Emirr/MapLab, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cypron-Range_Bubo_scandiacus.svg

No marks such as blotching, mottling, speckling or spotting add any color to each snowy owl mothers-to-be's 3 to 10, or maximmally 11 through 15, annual, short-elliptical to sub-elliptical, semi-glossy, smooth, 2.24-inch- (57-millimeter-) long, 1.77-inch- (45-millimeter-) wide, white eggs; Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, image of snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) eggs, collected June 15, 1920, at Karesuando, Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, northernmost Sweden; Collection Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut (Oct. 18, 1920-March 17, 2007), Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT), Jardin des Plantes de Toulouse, quartier de Busca-Montplaisir, Toulouse center, Haute-Garonne department, Occitania region, southwest France: Roger Culos (Ercé), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bubo_scandiacus_MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.157.3.jpg

Snowy owl fathers-to-be and fathers aid their mates with egg incubations and hatchings and with nestling broodings until just before the couple's chicks, as 3- to 4-week-olds, alternate between birth nests and adjacent pre-fledging and fledging nests. Snowy owl mothers-to-be and mothers allocate their time, from gestating, incubating and nourishing through preparing for flight, fledging and independece, to their chicks; Thursday, July 27, 2006, 15:29, image of mother with check at Calgary Zoo, St. George's Island, Bridgeland-Riverside neighborhood, northeast of Calgary's Downtown/East Village neighborhood, southwestern Calgary; western Canada: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SnowyOwl2.jpg; Tony Hisgett (ahisgett), CC BY 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/220415958/

Floyd Davidson approaches juvenile and mature appearances in his image of "Young Snowy Owl on the tundra at Utqiagvik, Alaska," whereby "Snowy owls lose their black feathers with age, although individual females may retain some"; Sunday, Sep. 24, 2006, 17:41, image of young snowy owl on tundra at Utqiagvik (Inupiaq: Utqiaġvik, as of Dec. 1, 2016; formerly Barrow), North Slope Borough, northwestern coastal Alaska, Arctic Circle: Floyd Davidson, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snowy_Owl_Barrow_Alaska.jpg

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