There are 140 species of owls worldwide in the owl family called Strigidae, 18 of which reside in North America, including barred, long-eared, short-eared, great horned, screech, saw whet and snowy — ...

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 ...

The newest unlikely Internet sensation is a pair of barnyard owls. They're not singing "I Will Always Love You" or "I Dreamed a Dream." They're simply doing what owls ...

This is probably the best known and most widely distributed owl found in Ireland. The other two owls are the Long-eared owl and the Short-eared owl. It is often referred to as the Hissing owl or Death ...

CHAMPAIGN -- “Birds of omen, dark and foul,” wrote Sir Walter Scott about owls, once considered harbingers of doom, death, and destruction. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches and an ...

While participating in the White River Christmas Bird Count near St. Charles on Jan. 5, I was reminded just how exciting it is to see an owl. My son Zach and friends Lewis and Shannon Peeler of ...

When this Yorke Peninsula woman heard shrieking noises coming from her fireplace she moved out of her bedroom – but it was her cute find that has inspired her. Watch the video. “I started to hear ...