A barn owl screeching its head off is not exactly music to the ears. And as babies, they're homely, with huge beaks for their size. They sway, hiss and howl like a windstorm when they feel threatened.
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 ...
If you've never heard a barn owl screech, you may not realize just how loud they can be. In a room full of volunteers and conservation officials, the fledglings inside a Bois D'Arc Conservation Area ...
6-15-08 'Running!! Baby barn owl' (2000 yen) lined up at the 'insomnia' booth. It is based on a photo by photographer Hanni Höhle, which shows the furry cub running hurriedly. In Japan, it became ...
One of Decatur’s newest public green spaces is the sprawling Legacy Park near Agnes Scott College. Formerly the site of the United Methodist Children’s Home, the 77-acre park’s peaceful landscape and ...
Wildlife biologists with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources need the public's help in locating barn owl nesting sites to gain a deeper understanding of why the species is rare in ...
From the perspective of a pitiful pocket gopher, the barn owl must seem like the perfect killing machine. Consider: The owls see prey in the dark from several hundred feet away. They can hear a mouse ...