Plus, pocket-sized owls hooting, few family reunions in the bird world and a visit by robins’ handsome cousin.

Q: I’m a big owl fan and have seen several kinds, especially the great horned owl. But I wonder: Why I don’t ever see short-eared owls? A: These tawny owls with their dramatically outlined eyes spend ...

The Eastern screech owl sat motionless in the hole of an oak tree at Lake Livingston State Recreation Area. I was at the lake to see a rather uncommon black-legged kittiwake that had been spotted at ...

Paleontologists have described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology a large owl that killed medium-sized mammals with its feet and claws some 55 million years ago. "Today, owls kill with their ...

A tawny owl found injured in the middle of the road has been nursed back to health and released back into the wild. The ...

Who-oo wants to learn more about owls? The National Aviary is offering close encounters with the nocturnal birds of prey through its annual Owl-o-Ween days and other October programming. “There is no ...

Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

The notion of an urban forest can, at first, seem a little too good to be true. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. But picturesque forested areas, including those places that ...

It was a cloudless January night. By 5:30, the sun had been down for an hour, and the full moon — the Wolf Moon — was low in the sky. Just outside the patio door, I heard a sharp click — like a pebble ...

HOUSTON, Minn. — Iris, a great horned owl, doesn’t need to hunt. Blind in her right eye, Iris has been in captivity since 2006. She is an education ambassador owl which means she’s used to give ...