If ever there were a competition to rank sibling relationships in the animal kingdom, barn owls would be close to the top. That’s because elder barn owlets will sometimes give away their meal to their ...
Food sharing is mainly found in adult animals as a part of social bonding. But in a rarely observed behavior in birds, older barn owl chicks will share food with younger ones. Robin Hood famously ...
RAMONA, Calif. — It's been about seven weeks since News 8 first told you about a family of barn owls in Ramona that have developed quite a following. Thousands watched the eggs hatch live through ...
BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa. (AP) — Barn owls are becoming alarmingly rare in Pennsylvania, even in Lancaster County, a place of many barns. So it was an unusual and thrilling experience Thursday night for about ...
RAMONA, Calif. — A pair of barn owls in Ramona welcomed five babies recently and are awaiting a couple more. They laid a total of seven eggs, according to Tiffany Sears with HDOnTap. Five had hatched ...
The large number of owlets in the nest - average is four to six - delight Dan Mummert of Lititz, a Game Commission wildlife diversity biologist who's co-heading a program to bolster barn owl ...
The discovery of a brood of four barn owl chicks in Co Antrim is being celebrated by conservationists. The young birds were carefully ringed by volunteer nest minder Ciaran Walsh to help track where ...
In a rare sighting, the first barn owl nest was documented in the state of Wisconsin in more than two decades after a La Crosse resident spotted an owlet in their backyard, according to the Department ...
A record number of barn owl chicks have been raised in West Penwith this year, marking the most successful breeding season for the species in Cornwall’s recent history. National Trust rangers, working ...
BEDFORD — Hissing and swaying back and forth, a 13-week-old owlet rescued from his precarious perch after his sibling took a tumble is doing great in rehabilitation — even if he seems a little grumpy ...