The snowy owl is a large white owl native to the Arctic tundra of North America and Eurasia, recognised for its yellow eyes and mostly silent hunting style. Males produce low hooting calls during breeding season, while females and young birds can give higher calls. Recordings of those calls have circulated for years in nature libraries and sound effect collections, then spread into video editing, games and social media. Creators keep returning to it because few animal sounds communicate cold, open and quiet places as quickly or as clearly.