Ms. Ackerman is the author of “What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds,” from which this essay is excerpted. When the first lucky observers spotted Flaco, the Eurasian ...

Many species of owl are able to hunt in effective silence by suppressing their noise at sound frequencies above 1.6 kilohertz (kHz) - over the range that can be heard by humans. A team of researchers ...

In 1992 certified arborist Tom Stephan was giving a woman an estimate on trimming a sycamore tree at her Pauma Valley Country Club home when he noticed a box in the branches. She was hoping it would ...

A pair of owls is helping German scientists figure out the secrets of bird flight. A camera system travels along with the two barn owls, Happy and Tesla, collecting data as the birds make short ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - Denver Holt knows owls. As president of the Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Holt has spent years studying the habitat and habits of owls in western Montana. During that time ...

Intrigued by the remarkable ability of birds to remain stable in the face of powerful winds, aerospace engineers in the UK have carried out a study to examine the phenomenon in great detail. By ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- WCCO recently told you about a snowy owl at University of Minnesota's The Raptor Center. It came from Washington, D.C. with burned feathers, and couldn't fly. Fortunately, the ...

Here's an update to a story WFAE's Nick de la Canal reported in April from the Carolina Raptor Center that focused on a team caring for young owls with no parents. One of the owls under care at the ...

Westfield State University admissions staff and students went to Westfield High School on Dec. 17 to hand more than 50 WHS ...