When wet, their wings weigh them down, leaving them susceptible to other predators like ... horned owls don’t build their own nests, so they often scavenge nests from other big birds.

Like all birds, they evolved out of small dinosaurs. After the great extinction 66mn years ago, owls grew into their night niche. Some 260 species exist today, spread from deserts to Arctic tundra ...

People typically tend to be either early birds or night ... mean that night owls can’t exhibit these traits. Because society is structured around a daytime schedule — like 9 to 5 workdays ...

Bird watchers along Lake Huron photographed ... had never seen a snowy owl quite like this. In January, Mr. Diller’s neighbor told him about a “red-spotted snowy owl” in the area.

I talked about the screech owls and bluebirds that start searching for nesting sites in March. Many take to nesting cavities in trees. Like many cavity nesting birds, owls and bluebirds will also ...

She's been shooting photos of snowy owls for six years, and has never seen one like this. Bird experts agree Creamsicle is rare — and potentially even unique — in its colouring.

Plus with folklorists who study humanity’s biocultural memory of owls. Like all birds, they evolved out of small dinosaurs. After the great extinction 66mn years ago, owls grew into their night ...

Meet the kakapo—a chunky, moss-green parrot that looks like it waddled out of a fantasy novel and forgot how to fly. This New Zealand native carries one of the bird world's most tragic and oddly ...

but really the last report from the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas only suggests that like five to 10 pairs breed in the whole province. So coming across any individual barn owls is really kind of a ...

An owl’s feathers are not waterproof, so being in the water hinders them. It also leaves them vulnerable to attacks since they cannot fly until their wings dry. When wet, their wings weigh them down, ...