Jun. 5—HOUSTON, Minn. — Iris, a great horned owl, doesn't need to hunt. Blind in her right eye, Iris has been in captivity since 2006. She is an education ambassador owl which means she's used ...

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 ...

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” — tufts ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“We renest up to a dozen great horned owls a year because they get too big and fall from their nest in the trees,” says Jessica Chiarello, senior animal care technician and hospital supervisor at ...

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 ...

Great horned owls often nest in old nests built by other raptors, such as red-tailed hawks. A surefire and highly optimistic harbinger of spring is the great horned owl. The massive owl is the first ...