What I call the Owl Relativity Theory could add solidity to the idea that barn owls have much wider distribution in Minnesota than ever imagined. These could be itinerant barn owls, but barn owls ...

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 ...

Each owl has its own unique call. The owl's hearing ability also allows it to hear its prey and swoop down silently like a flying mousetrap to grab a mouse, frog or snake with sharp talons and whisk ...

With common names such as cave owl, death owl, ghost owl, night owl and hobgoblin owl, the nocturnal hunter more widely known as the barn owl provides a fitting focus for exploration as the calendar ...

And by hunt, I mean intentionally head out at twilight to score a sighting of a gorgeous creature, not to claim them with my bow and arrow. I’m no Van Helsing. Mostly what I find in my journeys are ...

Certainly, more than one species of owl has inspired local folk tales, myths and Halloween-worthy legends. If I had to put one species at the top of the "ghost owl" list, it would be the barn owl. Why ...