Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on rodents scurrying along the ground below. Scientists have long puzzled over a ...

Casper the barn owl may look calm perched on his handler’s glove, but in the wild, survival is anything but easy.

LOS ANGELES - When Debbie and Dana Smith decided to put up an owl box to attract owls as a natural form of rat control at ...

Barn owls swoop down on rodents and swallow them whole – gophers, voles and mice, gone in a few gulps. But how do they keep down all that food? Well, they don’t. In a few stomach-turning steps, they ...

A third barn owl released as part of a reintroduction project run by the FKNK has been shot and severely injured, according to BirdLife Malta. The organisation said the injured bird was found in ...

BELLE GLADE, Fla. — Dr. Richard Raid is a plant pathologist. He works at the University of Florida Everglades Research and Education Center in Belle Glade. He's making his rounds on the property. But ...

When I was growing up in the tobacco-farming portion of the southern Virginia Piedmont, there were many abandoned outbuildings throughout the region. It was not unusual to see a white ghost-like form ...

BirdLife Malta collects barn-owl from Dwejra with a severely broken leg and shotgun injuries, making it the second of the species to be recovered since November 2025 ...