The Snow Owl is a large, diurnal white owl that has a round head, yellow eyes and black bill.The feet are heavily feathered as can be seen in these images also.A distinctive white, their overall plumage is variably barred or speckled with thin, black, horizontal bars or spots. Females and juveeniles are more heavily marked than males- adult males may be almost pure white, although they have up to three tail bands. Adult females are distinctly barred throughout and have from four to six tail bands. Immatures are very heavily banned throughout, and dark spotting may codominate or dominate the overall plumage . Intensity of dark spotting varies with the sex of the immatures, females being the darkest. Juveniles are uniformly brown with scattered white tips down.