This medium-sized owl is indeed quite scarce, normally detected by a haunting, wavering hoot that emanates from the deepest, darkest corners of woods. Its owlets, meanwhile, are renowned for their ...

Imagine taking a walk around Birmingham’s Railroad Park with your family a few days before Christmas, and suddenly, you discover a rare owl that has not been seen in Alabama for about a decade. That ...

Local birders very occasionally blunder upon the winter roost of a group of long-eared owls. These are often in dense conifer trees or, occasionally, in dense orchards. Overall, though, this owl is ...

Although unable to stand without leaning, the injured owl's strength is continuing to build, a rehabilitator said.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On the morning of Nov. 9 at Fort Foster in Kittery, the Maine Young Birders ...

For more than 30-years, the Owl Research Institute in Charlo has been gathering scientific data on several species of owls. It's founder and president, Denver Holt, is one of the world's foremost ...

The long-eared owl, Asio otus, is a majestic raptor known for its perky horn-like ear tufts, and cryptic herringbone markings that help it meld into its arboreal habitat. But in certain light, ...

A “routine” wildlife survey at a nature reserve in the United Arab Emirates took a turn when a staff member looked up at a tree — and found a “rare” visitor staring back. The brief encounter was the ...

This is the time of year I can count on my nighttime friend, the local great horned owl. If I crack my bedroom window just a bit, I can listen to him call out his lonesome song all night long. I am ...

Did you see the owl? No, not the bundled-up little one in the Rockefeller Christmas tree; not the barred owl that was just weeks ago the most exciting avian celebrity in Central Park since the Hot ...

A photographer has captured an amusing photo of an owl mid-yawn while walking around an English nature preserve, British news agency SWNS reports. Wayne Havenhand, who hails from Bedlington, ...

Halloween is around the corner, and many people are preparing for the holiday by carving pumpkins to display outside or inside their homes. One owl was proud to sit and pose for a photo on top of a ...