Unlike the snowy owl, the barn owl lives at latitudes where it doesn’t regularly snow. The barn owl’s paradoxically bright plumage baffled biologist Juanjo Negro and his colleagues ...
The National Aviary announced the recent hatching of its newest addition. A Eurasian eagle-owl was hatched at the Aviary on March 15. The chick weighed 55 grams when it hatched, roughly the size ...
This young bird can't have been out the nest for long. When barn owl chicks first hatch they lack feathers but these develop over time starting with a thin layer of down. By the time they are 5 ...
An unlikely symbol of cooperation, the barn owl is now getting global attention. Experts from 12 countries gathered in Greece last week to discuss an effort to help this remarkable predator that ...