Birders in Michigan are scratching their heads over unusual photos of a snowy owl. The animal is perfectly perched on a ...

Images authentically show a snowy owl with bright orange coloring. Rating: True (About this rating?) In early 2025, pictures ...

Bird experts agree Creamsicle is rare — and potentially even unique  — in its colouring. But they disagree about what’s ...

One day as she hid in a bird blind, a male drew near, splendid in his orange-feather ascot and white-spotted black cloak. After browsing for food, he hopped onto a boulder and began calling ...

Other commenters suggested theories for why the owl's feathers were orange, suggesting everything from chemical staining due to deicing fluid used at airports to the animal biologically adapting ...

Bright orange on underparts and rump. Very narrow black bib. Wings black with very extensive white wing patch on coverts; flight feathers also widely fringed white. Black tail with an orange base ...

But they disagree about what's behind the orange feathers. Karen Cleveland, wildlife biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, says they first started getting reports of the ...