A surefire and highly optimistic harbinger of spring is the great horned owl. The massive owl is the first Ohio bird species to commence nesting, sometimes laying eggs by late January. Incubating ...

The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is a marvel of evolutionary engineering, capable of something that seems almost magical—silent flight. In the dark woods of North America, these magnificent ...

In the midst of new births at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a mating pair of Great Horned Owls have returned to Disney’s Animal Kingdom to nest and hatch chicks. According to WDWNT reader, Mark Johnson, ...

Great horned owls are the first bird species in Ohio to begin nesting, often laying eggs by late January. Great horned owls are more commonly heard than seen, with their call being a series of ...

Reader Todd Mackinaw recently admired how the great horned owl can thrive from the Brooks Range in Alaska all the way to Uruguay in South America. The knee-high owl, known for its “plumicorns ...

A great horned owl was able to survive a gnarly encounter with a barbed wire fence thanks to a little help from a friend in law enforcement. Fort Bend County Constable Sgt. Harrell Clark was at a ...

One reason great horned owls may range so far is that they will eat anything they can grab. A few years ago, a teenage neighbor of ours shoved a great horned owl off his 7-pound dog in the driveway.

“That wasn’t a very safe place for us to bring back the baby.” Holmgren said the great horned owl population is stable in Pennsylvania, though they do not often nest in cities. But in environments ...