It was a great gray owl — a powerful and elegant raptor known to roam mountains and forests near the Teton and Absaroka ranges in northern Wyoming. In mid-January, however, two great grays strayed south into Fremont County, with several sightings reported over two weeks. A great gray owl scans fields for prey from a fencepost near Lander on Jan. 20, 2026. Colorado State University research scientist Katherine Gura has studied Wyoming great gray owls for a dozen years. “I GPS-tracked ~45 adult Great Gray Owls for my graduate research, including some paired males and females, and they rarely wintered together,” Gura wrote.