Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) hunting. getty. Blakiston’s fish owl, or more properly, Blakiston’s eagle owl, Bubo blakistoni, is a giant of a bird.Standing two-and-a-half feet tall ...

Burrowing owls are smaller than many other owls, so they eat more insects than most. It takes about 50 to 75 calories every 24 hours to keep a burrowing owl alive.

These and more amazing owl facts and illustrations are available on a Cornell Lab of Ornithology poster.The poster has illustrations by artist Liz Wahid and can be printed, free, off the internet.

Newly discovered fossils indicate the Asio ecuadoriensis owl hunted and ate various smaller species of owl. Illustration by Sebastián Rozadilla Some 40,000 years ago, a giant owl nested in a ...

Owls can turn their heads 270 degrees without injuring themselves. ... In this case, an illustration is worth a lot more than a thousand words, so check out the prize-winning drawings.

A new species of owl has just been described from Príncipe Island, part of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe in Central Africa. Scientists were first able to confirm its ...