Our field season on Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island featured at least 14 different snowy owls. Owl population numbers fluctuate depending on the availability of their main food sources – voles and lemmings. A peak year for voles and lemmings, in 2018 we saw snowy owls every day as we made our way to our monitoring sites. Though for us snowy owls became a common sight, much about this Arctic-roaming species remains unknown, including the limits of its breeding and migratory ranges.