A snowy owl that stopped pedestrian traffic — and the presses, when it found a spot outside The Washington Post 's building — in Washington, D.C. could not escape the city's danger.

The rare and majestic snowy owl has become an unusual and thrilling presence in the D.C. region this winter. One stately avian posed for photographs atop a suburban mall in Fairfax County.

The snowy owl that has been spotted recently in Washington, D.C., was brought to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for care early Thursday morning after reportedly being hit by a bus near 15th and ...

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Those feathers can then be used to get birds, like the D.C. owl, back into the air. "So, I knew that I would need flight feathers and tail feathers from a second year male snowy owl," Arent said.