Why Snowy Owls Are Key to the Arctics Future I Climate Heroes
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
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Snowy owls can survive tough Arctic winters, living year-round in regions like Alaska. But their population in North America has dropped dramatically over the last decade - by around 64%.
Now, scientists are closely monitoring the breeding patterns not just of snowy owls, but also of lemmings. As the birds’ main prey, the local rodent population has a huge effect on owl numbers. What could be causing the decline of these species down to the final third, and how might it affect the future of the Arctic?
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TQ for the video❤
Are u the voice behind these videos?
I hope we get to preserve these fantastic creatures and their winter wonderland, shame if our descendants would see snow owls as some ancient relic :/
We hope that too! 🦉
yes! I would hate to see snow owls being considered some type of mythical creature after theyre extinct. harry potter 😐😐
They most likely will.
Agree, we also need to address availability and predictability of rodent population, which what snowy owl consume.
That time lapse around 1:50 was just extraordinary! The nuance of orbital mechanics in action. Strange thing to see an owl species in an environment without trees -- nests on the ground in the wide open and all. This crew really followed the raising of these chicks for quite a length! That or owl chicks develop far faster than I had thought.
Fascinating!! As you said, "we don't notice these small rodents..." We do need to get down to the tiniest detail(s) of the root cause. The sooner the better!! Hope that the researchers find some answers soon...
The snowy owl is such a beautiful and majestic bird. I only hope it's around for a long time to come. Thanks for the great video
i love snowy owls! i hope we find out whats causing the numbers of lemmings to decrease to help protect their ecosystem
Agree!
Fascinating! I hope they can weather our changing climate.
So it means that both lemmings and owls can go extinct together, looks like maybe we can help grow some lemmings and set them free.
snowy owl are very cool but it's hard to believe that they depend on such tiny rodents and it would be very sad if our descendants only saw pictures, drawings and videos of them . Anyways ice video and cinematography keep up the good work
Love snowy owls! Great video as usual guys
Ive seen a few of these during the winter time here in Toronto! Beautiful creatures.
Snowy owl sure are awesome and I too want them to live on as the ultimate artic bird
I used to see these when I lived in Newfoundland, they were always a treat to see.
Thank you for sharing
Lovely video, as always! Is there any chance you'd consider turning the volume down on the background music? It's a touch overwhelming. ♥️
Lovely documentary.
Hi Susanna!
Thank you so much for your kind words 🥰
This video of TM was pretty great
meanwhile in Washington, D.C:
snowy owl: henlo
They’re like griffons... but smaller
Beautiful
It's so sad that only a fews people know and take climate change seriously when our beautiful planet is dying due to mankind actions
Please keep up the amazing work Terramatter and continue to spread the messages 🙏 ❤ you guys always deliver such high quality content as usual
The planet is fine. It's actually a lot greener than it use to be thanks to mankinds contributions to atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
And there's still plenty of ice. In fact glaciers are growing again. Arctic sea ice is rebounding.
It's what some would expect seeing as how the Modern Maximum(1914-2015ish) just ended recently.
Dying is an exaggeration. Humans are not capable of eradicating all life on Earth. At worst, we could wipe ourselves out and most larger plants and animals. Given a few million years, new species will arise. Earth used to have no oxygen, just CO2 and when the first plants and algae starting creating oxygen, it was extremely poisonous to most life and caused the first mass extinction. Now most life on earth metabolizes oxygen. Things adapt
@@johnozzmond9728 lol do you even know what the shit you just said, so you're saying its okay for us to wipe out ourselves + most other life in the biosphere just because it will recovery in a few MILLION years? are you insane? DYING means humanity dies and wipes out most life that exist, the sixth mass extinction. that is fucking unacceptable and down playing it like that, just casually accepting the extinction of humanity and most of the biosphere as we know it zombie level idiocracy
@@ConspiracytardHunter420 I said that's the worst case scenario. I don't think it's gonna be anywhere near that bad
Harry would be quite upset
😍😍sweet birdo❤
Love these birds
"milder winter temperatures below the arctic circle" aka DC
Mom! What's for dinner?
Mom: A side of lemmings with shredded lemmings. Then whole lemmings and for dessert, lemmings!
I love snowy owls
Seems very good. Lots of emphasis on the importance of lemmings, which is fully believable. However, several of the snippets actually show small birds as prey of the Snowy Owl and the Arctic fox is carrying an egg. Yet throughout this the narration was only about lemmings, ignoring that clearly other prey are taken.
But the lemmings are their main food source and without them they can't feed their young.
They wont necessarily starve because of less lemmings because there is other food, but they can't feed their young since they need much more prey for that.
And as mentioned in the video: they will only nest in areas with many lemmings. If they can't find a good place, they wont produce offspring.
will snowy owls over time evolve to have a darker completion due to the warming climate?
thats crazy, 64% ??!
They can't stand the cold!
i want a snow owl
So we are destroying the snowy-owl-and-lemming cycle?
Hedwig...
Sad they are beautiful
Poor rodents, they’re just food
You could technically say that all living things are food
@@WanderTheNomad yea, i mean Pray. The owls usually die before they get eaten
So lemings are the true heroes
Always I listened Lenin
does it affect humans?
Are the Polar Bears extinct yet??
I love all speices of Owls and Arctic Owls are one of the most gorgeous birds. Vultures are my favorite birds but the majestic Owls are something else. Let's hope we bring down climate change so lemming populations and subsequently Owl populations stabilize.
they need more prey species.....
never put all your lemmings in
one coupe....
Congratulations to us humans for making another species endangered..... Strange but other than us humans every other species is endangered.... Hope people stop feeding their greed and take what is only necessary..... **"Nature has everything for your need and nothing for your greed...... "**
what is happening？ the Japanese took the snow owl 🦉 as a pet ! There are so many snow owl in Japan as pets!!! Where do they come from?!
Carrier from Hogwarts
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Probably, polar bears are eating the eggs.
Sea ice is rebounding in the Arctic. The "experts" claiming ice free summers by 2013-14 then later claiming 2016... well they were just wrong.
Modern Maximum(1914-2015ish) ended and ice began accumulating again.
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God these videos are incredibly depressing ... Humans are too worried about goddamn tic tok videos and burning fuel.. we aren't going to change.
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