Owls are some of the best-known birds in the world, famous for their hooting calls and their excellent eyesight. There are ...

It’s dusk, and you’re outside taking down the last of the Christmas decorations. Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a ping-pong ball that just got dropped. It starts out slow, accelerates in tempo ...

The Bay Area wildlife community still has much to celebrate this season — the popular burrowing owl is finally making a ...

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 ...

The short-eared owl is a wide-ranging species appearing on five continents, the exceptions being Australia and Antarctica. In North America, the short-eared owl winters across the southern half of the ...

The owls are freighted with folklore. The ancient Greeks thought them wise, the Old Testament regarded them as unclean. Many cultures regard them as portending misfortune, even death. Harry Potter ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Countries under the international treaty to protect migratory animals have proposed increasing protections ...