Paleontologists have identified a 55-million-year old owl fossil that had talons like a hawk, according to a newly published study. The research tells the tale of Primoptynx poliotauros, a creature ...

This barn owl was found tangled in fishing line in a palm tree near the historic Stow House in Goleta on Saturday. Credit: Susie Clothier Photography photo It wasn’t the up-close view of wildlife that ...

Two years after erecting a barn owl box at Our Garden, the demonstration garden in Walnut Creek founded by the Bay Area News Group and the Contra Costa Master Gardeners, the nesting box has attracted ...

Backyard bird-watchers looking for Santa Claus may have better luck watching December night skies for the magnificent barn owl. These beautiful white ghosts of the night silently hunt in darkness and ...

There were quiet gasps of awe as a barn owl took wing on Saturday, emerging from a cardboard travel box and then flying rapidly away from the people grouped near Stow House to witness her return to ...

When the cloak of night sweeps across the earth, and the moon stretches our shadows, careful little creatures begin scanning the skies for predators that stalk on silent wings — the owls. Four species ...