Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown is still searching for their beloved European barn owl, Nebula, who has been missing since Oct. 25 after she managed to slip away from her handler and fly off due ...

In spring, songbirds serenaded us with sweet song each morning in the “dawn chorus.” In summer, the monotonous droning of cicadas and katydids day and night gave us that season’s iconic sounds. But ...

You may never see Michigan’s tiniest owl in the wild, but on calm winter nights, you could very well hear one. The Northern saw-whet owl is one of the most common owls across the U.S. in winter; a ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

I have enjoyed seeing and hearing the amazing great horned owl many times but never like last week, when I watched one for over an hour while sitting in the back of Alpine Gardens with my friend, ...

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

For researchers, endangered and threatened birds like the Northern Spotted Owl and the Marbled Murrelet can be incredibly hard to find and study in the wild. Now, new research shows that artificial ...