The Blakiston fish owl (Bubo Blakistoni) is the world’s largest – and one of the rarest – owl species, with an impressive 6 foot (2 meter) wingspan. The giant owl, found exclusively in northeast Asia, ...

Allen Raeder, retired farmer, former Sheboygan County Supervisor and always an active community citizen, called Dec. 22, to report he and his wife, Janet, observed a large snowy owl. Raeder, who said ...

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) – New England is seeing a large number of snowy owls arrive in the region this winter due to an irregular phenomenon called an irruption. Avian officials in Rhode Island say there ...

There is a small park with big trees behind Debbie Garfield’s house in eastern Grand Junction where she likes to walk her dog ...

A pair of great horned owls have occupied the wooded ridge behind my rural home. Since early October, these owls have reminded me each day toward dusk the reason that many people know this large, ...

Despite vast forest loss, the Anjouan scops owl is holding on in the Comoros Islands The Anjouan scops owl. Photo by: Alan Van Norman. The Anjouan scops owl—an elusive owl found only on its tiny ...

Mid-December is a time of cold, snow, ice and darkness. Though the cold, snow and ice may vary from year to year, the darkness is a consistent annual phenomenon. We will soon be at the winter solstice ...

In the photo accompanying this column, the owl and my wife have eyes about the same size, yet my wife is many times larger than the owl. Proportionately, if my wife were an owl, her eyes would be ...