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American Barn Owl: Ghostly Bird of Prey

If you’ve ever seen a big, ghostly bird swoop through the beam of headlights, you probably glimpsed an American barn owl.
According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a male Mockingbird may learn up to 200 songs in its lifetime. Like the ...
Look whooo’s gone missing again! A popular barn owl with a history of wanderlust has once again gone AWOL from a Long Island Nature Center. Nebula, a 6-year-old captive-bred European barn owl, somehow ...
West Penwith is home to some very fluffy and photogenic barn owlets, said the National Trust [Katie Reynolds] Barn owlets in part of Cornwall had a particularly strong breeding season this year, with ...
A woman who kept a barn owl in a cramped parrot cage has been taken to court by the RSPCA and convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. Named Shirlina, the wild bird had no ...
Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look like child’s play. While some were part of medical research, others drifted ...
West Penwith is home to some very fluffy and photogenic barn owlets, said the National Trust Barn owlets in part of Cornwall had a particularly strong breeding season this year, with 21 owlets ...
It sounds like something straight out of a midnight Nollywood script, but it happened right here — in Nkhotakota. Ladies and gentlemen, the owl was in its feelings. Residents say the creature was ...
The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...
Inside the UK's first Reggio Emilia-inspired ‘future school’, where children develop the skills to thrive in a fast-changing world. By Nicole Weinstein Bridging the gap between – 'prescriptive ...