“I have had people say to me they thought it was a woman screaming,” she adds. The ghostly bird’s sudden, chilling presence helps explain why the barn owl was believed to be an animal of bad ...

For hundreds of years, a handsome, dark-brown owl with white spots has made its home in the lush, "old-growth" forests of the Pacific Northwest. Under the multilayered canopies of these 200-year-old ...