There are 140 species of owls worldwide in the owl family called Strigidae, 18 of which reside in North America, including barred, long-eared, short-eared, great horned, screech, saw whet and snowy — ...

A ghostly figure bursts out of the church belfry, utters an unearthly shriek, and glides silently off over the fields. Are Halloween spirits abroad? Did you just see a ghost? No, you were fortunate to ...

If you've never heard a barn owl screech, you may not realize just how loud they can be. In a room full of volunteers and conservation officials, the fledglings inside a Bois D'Arc Conservation Area ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

Certainly, more than one species of owl has inspired local folk tales, myths and Halloween-worthy legends. If I had to put one species at the top of the "ghost owl" list, it would be the barn owl. Why ...

When the cloak of night sweeps across the earth, and the moon stretches our shadows, careful little creatures begin scanning the skies for predators that stalk on silent wings — the owls. Four species ...

Between being primarily nocturnal and very well camouflaged, owls are not often seen. Reliable estimates of populations of most species don’t exist. For some of the especially secretive species, their ...

There are at least 250 species of owls in the world, but only a few are more commonly seen (and heard) in Northern California and across the United States. The most common owls you’ll encounter in ...