The owl is nocturnal with keen senses of sight and sound. It sees through the shadows of the night and hears the sounds in the silence; the illusion of the darkness.” – Anonymous Winter evenings and ...

At this time of year, I get a lot of emails and texts from people reporting they are hearing an owl hooting outside their windows at night. While many enjoy the sound, others complain they ...

A barred owl made quite a stir in Arlington, Virginia, over the Christmas holiday. The bird evidently was playing Santa Claus ...

Great horned owls are usually a warm shade of brown to ... been mistakenly believed to allow the owl to sneak up on its prey. However, it is believed now that since the owl usually locates its ...

It’s no secret that owls are a hot topic in the bird world. These birds of prey are fascinating, unique and rarely seen due ...

Murray Zelt was enjoying photographing a northern pygmy owl hunting a vole near 100 Mile House in B.C.'s Cariboo, about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver, when he watched the tiny raptor get hit by a ...

UC Santa Barbara’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration and the Ojai Raptor Center release the pint-size owl at UCSB’s North Campus Open Space.

Great Horned Owls are found throughout the Okanagan’s ... Owls have a 30 per cent higher capacity for hearing than humans, able to detect prey by sound even under two feet of snow.

Hellbenders are nocturnal and eat a variety of aquatic prey, primarily crayfish. Conservation efforts are crucial for this sensitive species, which faces threats from habitat destruction and water ...

Like the great horned owl and the Eurasian eagle owl ... Then itx’ll simply drop onto or fly to the prey. The owl is also different from others in that it spends a lot of time on the ground and may ...