Fancy a game of pin the ears on a bird? Alright then, big shot, where are they? Birds use sound as one of their key senses for navigating the environment, but most of them are a bit secretive about ...

Like the boreal owl, its ears are asymmetrical, allowing it to pinpoint prey more accurately. These qualities help the owl hunt aerially, flying over open spaces or under the tree canopy to swoop down ...

Owls ears are also at different levels on the side of their head (see image above). This is so an owl can pinpoint not only if the sound is coming from the left or the right, but whether it’s ...

Critters Short Ears, Big Wings, Can’t Lose Short-eared owls are disappearing along with the Texas prairie. But for now, they’re putting on a show outside Manor.

The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) is the only large North American owl with ear tufts that are commonly referred to as "horns." With a wingspan often measuring 55 inches ...

The short-eared owl is a wide-ranging species appearing on five continents, the exceptions being Australia and Antarctica. In North America, the short-eared owl winters across the southern half of ...

Like most owls, barred owls are mostly nocturnal; night creatures that spend the daylight hours resting and hiding, and therefore the best way to experience them is to listen for them at night.

In “What an Owl Knows” she offers an absorbing ear-tuft-to-tail appreciation of the raptor that Mary Oliver, a poet, called a “god of plunge and blood”. Owls, it seems, know a lot.

White said the owls, which usually hunt as it begins to get dark, are starting to fly around 3:30 p.m., giving birders and photographers better light to see them in flight.