In Popular Culture
- For the Oglala Lakota Indians, the Snowy Owl represents the North and the north wind. They also were admired and respected by the tribe; in fact, warriors that excelled in combat wore a cap of owl feathers to symbolize their bravery.
- The Snowy Owl is the official bird of Quebec, Canada, and it was depicted on the 1986 series Canadian $50 note.
- One of the protagonists of the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber accidentally kills an Icelandic Snowy owl at a party in Aspen, Colorado.
- In the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter had a pet snowy owl named Hedwig.
- A Snowy owl character named Steve (Jonathan Katz) acts as a psychologist in Farce of the Penguins.
- In Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, the king and queen of Ga'Hoole, Boron & Barran, are Snowy Owls. For the movie adaptation, Boron is voiced by Richard Roxburgh and Barran by Deborra-Lee Furness.
- The O RLY? image macro, which is commonly used in web forum postings, typically features a Snowy Owl.
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