Owls are more often heard than seen. In New York, there are eight species of these interesting raptors, with the majority most active at night. Some live here year-round, some are migratory. They ...

At least one, and perhaps more, snowy owls have been seen in South Sound in recent days, part of an uptick in snowy owl sightings throughout Western Washington. A snowy owl or owls have made an ...

Snowy owls look calm and mysterious from the outside, but they have far more odd habits than most people realise. […] ...

CHAMPAIGN -- “Birds of omen, dark and foul,” wrote Sir Walter Scott about owls, once considered harbingers of doom, death, and destruction. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches and an ...

The Great Grey Owl practices tireless hunting efforts. This has to do with the owl’s decision not to migrate, but instead to remain in the same location year-round. Consequently, during the winter, ...

It was well north of 3 a.m. when the soft hooting of a distant great horned owl pulled me from the gentle arms of Morpheus, that mythological god of sleep and dreams. In the heat and stillness of the ...

Owls have a long and storied history in human culture, appearing in everything from ancient mythology to the Harry Potter books. But there’s much more to these amazing creatures than their place in ...

The old tulip tree in my backyard is one of many, but this one has a knothole, maybe four inches in diameter and twenty feet up the trunk. One day the knothole seemed to attract a lot of attention. A ...

Several of great gray owls' physical features, especially parts of their wings and face, help them correct for sonic distortions caused by snow, enabling them to find hidden, moving food with ...