Ms. Ackerman is the author of “What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds,” from which this essay is excerpted. When the first lucky observers spotted Flaco, the Eurasian ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - Denver Holt knows owls. As president of the Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Holt has spent years studying the habitat and habits of owls in western Montana. During that time ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- WCCO recently told you about a snowy owl at University of Minnesota's The Raptor Center. It came from Washington, D.C. with burned feathers, and couldn't fly. Fortunately, the ...

Many species of owl are able to hunt in effective silence by suppressing their noise at sound frequencies above 1.6 kilohertz (kHz) - over the range that can be heard by humans. A team of researchers ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Denver Holt knows owls. As president of the Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Mont., Holt has spent years studying the habitat and habits of owls in western Montana. During that time ...

Here's an update to a story WFAE's Nick de la Canal reported in April from the Carolina Raptor Center that focused on a team caring for young owls with no parents. One of the owls under care at the ...

I’m sorry, there’s just something silly about taking an owl on an airplane. It’s like carrying a dolphin inside a submarine or taking a box full of moles on the subway. Owls are creatures of the air.