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 ...

A ghostly figure bursts out of the church belfry, utters an unearthly shriek, and glides silently off over the fields. Are Halloween spirits abroad? Did you just see a ghost? No, you were fortunate to ...

Certainly, more than one species of owl has inspired local folk tales, myths and Halloween-worthy legends. If I had to put one species at the top of the "ghost owl" list, it would be the barn owl. Why ...

Between being primarily nocturnal and very well camouflaged, owls are not often seen. Reliable estimates of populations of most species don’t exist. For some of the especially secretive species, their ...