Photographs of “naked” owls ruffled the internet’s feathers — even though the raptors appeared to lack their own. Bet Lott, a raptor specialist at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey, confirmed to ...

Many of us here in west Texas are familiar with the largest of the owls, the great horned owl. Its “whoo-whoo-whoo” song resounds throughout the southwest evenings. Some of us have even observed one ...

Bird bander Paul Karner remembers the days when he regularly encountered barn owls in the Northampton County countryside. Karner used to monitor a pair of the odd-looking owls that made their home in ...

The barn owl, one of Canada's most endangered owls, isn't native to Alberta and is considered extremely rare anywhere in the ...

I got an interesting call recently. The question of the day was, “Do owls dig dens into dirt embankments?” My first thought was of the burrowing owl, but the description the caller gave me more ...

Between being primarily nocturnal and very well camouflaged, owls are not often seen. Reliable estimates of populations of most species don’t exist. For some of the especially secretive species, their ...

Exposure to sulfur-rich volcanic soil may increase production of pheomelanin, a pigment that gives a reddish tint to the feathers of barn owls living on remote volcanic islands Barn owls (Tyto alba) ...