Great Gray Owl Nest Cam

The Great Gray Owl

The Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) is North America's largest owl by length, a phantom of the northern woods renowned for its immense facial disc and silent, ghostly flight. This nest cam offers a privileged window into a species that is notoriously difficult to observe in the wild.

A Forest Nest Snag

The camera is mounted opposite a hollowed tree snag, the natural cavity these owls favor for raising a brood. Surrounded by dense stands of spruce, fir and pine, the setting reveals the tangled understory and weathered trunks of a working montane forest.

Owl Research Institute

The feed is stewarded by the Owl Research Institute, a conservation and study center based near Charlo in the Mission Valley. Their long-term monitoring turns this camera into a genuine citizen-science tool for understanding owl behavior and breeding.

Wild Western Montana

Framed by the boreal and temperate forests of western Montana, the view sits within one of the most pristine and biodiverse corners of the American Rockies — a landscape shaped by wildlife, wilderness and the rhythms of the northern forest.