Just off Africa’s western coast, there’s a small island known as Príncipe where strange screeches haunt the night. Not many people have heard the noises, which emanate from the old-growth forests on ...

There are many species around the world that could have made it onto this highly subjective list: animals, birds and invertebrates with expressions that scream, 'Not today, pal’, and encourage you to ...

A barred owl. Photo from the Explorer archive. Owls make up a significant niche of the birds of prey family. Of the order of strigiformes, they come in many different shapes and sizes. Some may ...

Snowy owls have been spotted in Wisconsin in early November, which is slightly earlier than usual. Snowy owls are the heaviest owl species in North America and typically live in the Arctic. If you see ...

The phrase “a parliament of owls” comes from medieval times, when people loved giving poetic names to animal groups. Writers imagined that owls, with their calm eyes and thoughtful faces, held wise ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and California after a short-lived effort to halt the cull was thwarted in the ...

Deep underground, explorers followed the sound of water — until they heard something else. Their GoPro footage captured eerie, rhythmic sounds echoing through the cave’s tunnels, growing louder the ...

To save the northern west’s spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) from extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill up to 450,000 barred owls (Strix Varia) across California, ...

On a Saturday evening in late October, my boyfriend and I were walking around César Chávez Park in Berkeley when we came across a man with a camera and tripod near the Burrowing Owl Sanctuary. I asked ...

Wash. — The U.S. Senate rejected a resolution that would have stopped a controversial wildlife management plan: killing barred owls to protect the endangered northern spotted owl. The Barred Owl ...