Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on rodents scurrying along the ground below. Scientists have long puzzled over a ...

What I call the Owl Relativity Theory could add solidity to the idea that barn owls have much wider distribution in Minnesota than ever imagined. These could be itinerant barn owls, but barn owls ...

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

The Almanack shares a compilation of its five best owl feature stories over the years, pulled from the archives.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

A Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA worker recently rescued a barn owl that got stuck in a chimney at a home in San Carlos. It's unknown how long the bird was trapped in the chimney for, but it has ...

Lexie Echols received an urgent call from her sister-in-law in late May. Driving through green pastures southeast of Corvallis, something had caught her attention. A barn owl was trapped on a barbed ...

According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, most baby animals that are seen alone in the wild do not need rescuing – their parents are likely just out gathering food. If you see ...

If you have day-hiked in the Smokies, you have undoubtedly been monitored, unawares, from a tree cavity. The unseen watcher? A winged super-predator resting with one eye open, waiting for dusk or ...