Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

For the past month or so, when I wake up in the wee hours of the night, I have been hearing great horned owls busily hooting from the forest behind my house. This goes counter to what I thought about ...

They start at the 11th hour of the night, or in the wee hours of the morning, with a basso song that reverberates through the bedroom window. “Who’s-awake? Me-too,” sounds the call. A pair of great ...

A sudden intake of breath, a moment of stunned attention. This is how most of us react when we encounter a great horned owl. If the owl is looking at us, those big yellow eyes seem to bore right into ...

Even better than identifying the birds was identifying with the birds, writes. I wasn’t sure what they were talking about, ...

It was well north of 3 a.m. when the soft hooting of a distant great horned owl pulled me from the gentle arms of Morpheus, that mythological god of sleep and dreams. In the heat and stillness of the ...

Earlier this winter just after midnight, my parents were binge-watching "Game of Thrones" when they heard a thunderous chorus of hooting outside their home in Shakopee. My parents have relatively poor ...

For the past month or so, when I wake up in the wee hours of the night, I have been hearing great horned owls busily hooting from the forest behind my house. This goes counter to what I thought about ...