The hearing precision that lets common barn owls find prey is helping researchers fine tune their quest to diagnose a variety of problems rooted in the human brain, not only with hearing but also with ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

If you've never heard a barn owl screech, you may not realize just how loud they can be. In a room full of volunteers and conservation officials, the fledglings inside a Bois D'Arc Conservation Area ...

An owl with the word "barn" in its name would seem to imply that this bird would be a common inhabitant of the agricultural Midwest. But due to loss of foraging and nesting habitat and the widespread ...

Many of us here in west Texas are familiar with the largest of the owls, the great horned owl. Its “whoo-whoo-whoo” song resounds throughout the southwest evenings. Some of us have even observed one ...

In Hawaii, owls are creatures of myth. Owls are said to rescue lost souls from the underworld and guide armies to safety. Hawaiian legends say the god Kane took the form of an owl in battle to protect ...

When I was a boy growing up in the tobacco farming country of the south-central Virginia piedmont, there were haunted barns and other outbuildings throughout the region. My friends and I knew they ...

The barn owl, one of Canada's most endangered owls, isn't native to Alberta and is considered extremely rare anywhere in the ...

Rats, mice and gophers cause damage to homes, businesses, cropland and pastures across Cleveland County. A colony of just 100 rats will consume over one ton of grain per year and contaminate 10 times ...

They might be looking quite identical, but each of the populations of two owl species, living in the opposite hemispheres, might actually turn out to be yet another kind. This suggestion has been made ...