When a friend told biologist Bettina Eastman Wednesday that a snowy owl had been spotted in Cypress, she immediately drove up from her home in Huntington Beach. Dozens of people had already gathered ...

For now, it’s a holiday mystery. A snowy owl, certainly not native to Southern California, has made an appearance in a residential Cypress neighborhood, drawing avid ornithologists and curious bird ...

What brought the owl to the city of Cypress, in Orange County, remains a mystery. By Michael Levenson The forbidding frozen wilderness of the high Arctic tundra is the natural home of the snowy owl, a ...