The Almanack shares a compilation of its five best owl feature stories over the years, pulled from the archives.

Barn owls typically live for about five years in the wild, with the oldest recorded wild owl living to 15 years old. The ...

Many of us here in Texas are familiar with the largest of the owls, the Great Horned Owl. Its “whoo-whoo-whoo” song resounds throughout our Texas evenings. Some of us have even observed one of the ...

Nebula, the six-year-old fugitive European barn owl, remains on the lam nearly three weeks after hightailing it from a Long ...

Volunteers are celebrating a rise in their local barn owl population. Tees Valley Wildlife Trust said in 2025, the area it ...

What I call the Owl Relativity Theory could add solidity to the idea that barn owls have much wider distribution in Minnesota than ever imagined. These could be itinerant barn owls, but barn owls ...

Flying silently through Nick Davis’ almond orchard, a barn owl swoops through the blossoming trees, listening for the slightest rustling of what could be its next meal. With one-inch talons and a grip ...

Many of us here in west Texas are familiar with the largest of the owls, the great horned owl. Its “whoo-whoo-whoo” song resounds throughout the southwest evenings. Some of us have even observed one ...

An injured barn owl has been nursed back to health and released into the wild, an animal charity has said. Jolene was found ...

Bella the Barn Owl will return to the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster for the Wild about Wildlife presentation ...

BELLE GLADE, Fla. — Dr. Richard Raid is a plant pathologist. He works at the University of Florida Everglades Research and Education Center in Belle Glade. He's making his rounds on the property. But ...

PITTSBURGH — Like a real estate agent trying to attract a potential buyer, zookeepers are hoping to repopulate western Pennsylvania with barn owls by offering them spacious nests and a good location ...