I shot photos of the snowy owl in the field and some of the people who came to see the owl. Those photos were in the Feb. 4 edition of LNP. I returned a few other days, and each time the photos I ...

Another awesome time-lapse view is this flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, shot on a GoPro. While the entire video is less than 1.5-minutes long, jump to the 40-second mark to see the planet ...

Ms. Ackerman is the author of “What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds,” from which this essay is excerpted. When the first lucky observers spotted Flaco, the ...