Owl eyes are round, but not spherical. These immobile, tubular structures sit on the front of an owl’s face like a pair of built-in binoculars. They allow the birds to focus in on prey and see in ...

A couple of readers have asked about barn owls recently – and there was one seen near Broadbottom last week — so please let me know where and when you last saw one of these enigmatic birds. The barn ...

Rodney is a beloved barn owl, and his transformation from a young rescue hatchling to a full-grown adult is stunning.

These medium-sized owls have long, rounded wings and short tails, which combine with a buoyant, loping flight to give them a distinctive flight style. The legs are long and the head is smoothly ...

If you’ve ever seen a big, ghostly bird swoop through the beam of headlights, you probably glimpsed an American barn owl.

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 the only sport you really like is wordplay, you might want to sidestep the Super Bowl for the Superb Owl. Reddit created the meme in 2014 to get around the NFL’s Super Bowl trademark, but it’s also ...