AUSTIN, Texas — With bright yellow eyes and a wingspan of approximately four feet long, the Great Horned Owl is a common species of bird seen throughout the U.S. year-round. In Austin, one owl in ...

If you explore our old-growth forests or the high desert trails long enough, you’ll hear the deep, sonorous hoot of the great horned owl or the whimsical “who cooks for you” hoot of the barred owl.

At day’s end I scribble down things I have seen. I write only of sights I might go a month before seeing again, or a year, or a lifetime perhaps. A lifetime? Indeed. Take the owl in the tree. The ...

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 ...

On a cold winter night while stargazing, I heard two owls calling in the distance, one with a deeper voice. It was a rhythmic series of hooting — hoohoohoo hoohoo hoo. A male and female great horned ...

MONUMENT, Colo. (KRDO) -- Thursday, a great horned owl was rescued in Monument. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said the owl was found near a trail. Its injuries are unknown at this time but it is headed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, the article I submitted about the vision of owls was accompanied by a photo of an owl sitting on my wife’s arm, which drew some warranted criticism. The photo suited my purposes well in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FAIRWAY, Kan. — The City of Fairway is ...

A few snowy owls were documented in Wisconsin in early November, the first of the species to arrive in the state for the winter of 2025-26.