Snowy Owl Chicks

Description

These baby snowy owls would freeze to death without a nest to block the wind. Instead, their parents hunt lemmings and stack dozens around the nest. Snowy owls nest in a shallow scrape on a raised spot of open tundra. Here they live almost entirely on lemmings, and in poor lemming years many don't nest at all. The IUCN lists the species as Vulnerable.