Volunteers are celebrating a rise in their local barn owl population. Tees Valley Wildlife Trust said in 2025, the area it ...

Natural predators come in all sizes, shapes and classes. There are generalists that eat whatever they can get a hold of to specialists that just hunt and consume certain species in a particular way.

BirdWatch Ireland's Dr Alan McCarthy ringing a barn owl chick in East Cork (taken under licence from NPWS). Photo: Peter McCarthy. Adult barn owl. The bird’s numbers are growing in Cork (taken under ...

A ghost-like barn owl flying low over open farmland at dawn or dusk is one of Nature’s hold-your-breath sights. The iconic beauty Tyto alba is a brilliantly adapted nocturnal predator, its soft ...

I am interested in getting an owl box. I have researched the Hungry Owl Project on the Internet, but I can’t find out which type of owl frequents our area. A friend in Grass Valley has the same ...

Flying silently through Nick Davis’ almond orchard, a barn owl swoops through the blossoming trees, listening for the slightest rustling of what could be its next meal. With one-inch talons and a grip ...

GARDINER — A couple of Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue’s “retired” barn owls help raise young owls in need. During a new fundraising raffle this fall, North Olympic Peninsula residents can, too.

WATSONVILLE >> The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...

A female barn owl shields her young with protective wings. During high rodent populations, barn owls have the ability of raising two broods in one season, with 4 to 10 young each, beginning in late ...

WATSONVILLE — The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...