The Almanack shares a compilation of its five best owl feature stories over the years, pulled from the archives.

I’ve never seen a screech owl before, but for sure have I heard them. Despite the name, screech owls do not actually “screech. Even when attacked, they are more likely to make a sharp, clacking noise ...

Nebula, the six-year-old fugitive European barn owl, remains on the lam nearly three weeks after hightailing it from a Long ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

Between being primarily nocturnal and very well camouflaged, owls are not often seen. Reliable estimates of populations of most species don’t exist. For some of the especially secretive species, their ...

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 ...

A spooky-looking, nocturnal creature could fly across the neighborhood street on Halloween, petrifying children primed for ghosts. The foot-long creature will sail silently on broad flapping wings, ...

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to their ...

PITTSBURGH — Like a real estate agent trying to attract a potential buyer, zookeepers are hoping to repopulate western Pennsylvania with barn owls by offering them spacious nests and a good location ...