The gray-tinted sky spread like a shawl over the landscape; nothing disturbed its stillness by flying across. A thousand fenceposts stood upright, some with fencing attached and some without. A ...

One of the first short-eared owls to be bred in captivity in the United Kingdom after around 30 years has been born. Adorable pictures show 6-week-old fluff ball Machrihanish, or Mac for short, who ...

The "short ears" of the short-eared owl are not ears, but small feather tufts which are not usually visible. During the afternoon I watched the short-eared owl show. I saw it perch on the ground, ...

One of the first short-eared owls to be bred in captivity in the U.K. for around 30 years has been born. Adorable pictures show six-week-old fluff ball Machrihanish, or Mac for short, who was born at ...

GENESEO, N.Y. -- State environmental conservation officers recently conducted a unique detail in a Western New York rural area to protect a species of endangered owls wintering there – and in the ...

Ohio’s six species of regularly occurring owls are generally much easier to hear than see. The big three in central Ohio are the barred owl, eastern screech owl and great horned owl. While barred owls ...

With the door slowly closing on October and beginning to open on winter, the flush of migrating birds will rapidly diminish. Soon, we will only have the birds that have determined to winter in our ...

Earlier this week, I had a late afternoon coffee date in Larimore, North Dakota. On my way home, north on state Highway 18, I glanced left to look at the sunset and I spied a short-eared owl. Thus, ...