Many Christmas trees are topped with glowing stars. Other tree toppers have wings, feathers, and… a beak? One family in Virginia got quite the surprise on Wednesday, Dec. 18, when a barred owl ...

Initially a star, the Burgoyne family's 'tree topper' became a wild barred owl after it flew into their ... back and forth from their kitchen and Christmas tree after he arrived.

At dusk on Tuesday, the adult male Saw-whet owl, who was found caught in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree earlier this month, was released back into the wild by the ...