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When you twist your head around to check for a driver in your "blind spot" before changing lanes, don’t you wish you could swivel your head around like an owl? Owls can rotate their heads by as much as 270 degrees in either direction without damaging the delicate blood vessels in their necks and heads, and without cutting off the blood supply to their brains.

Owls also have the uncanny ability to fly silently, relying on specialized plumage to reduce noise so they can hunt in acoustic stealth (many "contactees" have mistaken Grays for owls).
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Have you seen an owl in your yard lately? Arctic Snowy Owls are moving south into the lower 48 states in numbers never before witnessed. A leading researcher has called the numbers "unbelievable." Most of the birds are younger owls, and it is believed that the migration is being caused by a fundamental failure of food supplies in the rapidly changing Arctic. The birds feed on lemmings and other small rodents.

They are known to engage in southerly migrations like this when prey is scarce, but the scale of what is happening now is completely unprecedented. It suggests that there has been a basic failure of the food chain in the high Arctic, probably due to Arctic melt..
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