Q: Good or bad: I maintain a heated birdbath in winter, and have read that birds shouldn’t take baths in it on really cold days. My feeling is that birds have enough sense not to immerse themselves in ...

At day’s end I scribble down things I have seen. I write only of sights I might go a month before seeing again, or a year, or a lifetime perhaps. A lifetime? Indeed. Take the owl in the tree. The ...

The hooting of a great horned owl is an instantly recognizable sound and always sends shivers traveling along the spine. The after-dark calls of this large predatory bird also got me to thinking about ...

The great horned owl has recently claimed a well-known nest on Hilton Head Island that is recorded by a Raptor CAM that is monitored by the Hilton Head Island Land Trust and is live-streamed to ...

Great horned owls are the first bird species in Ohio to begin nesting, often laying eggs by late January. Great horned owls are more commonly heard than seen, with their call being a series of deep ...

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 ...

After a small family of owls made Lincoln Park’s North Pond their home this spring, Chicago residents flocked to the area to try to catch a glimpse of the two great horned owls raising their young.

A Wisconsin filmmaker has captured rare footage showing a great horned owl absorbing a direct hit to the face by a marauding crow, and standing its ground during a prolonged “crow mob assault.” Freddy ...

A great horned owl that was rescued from a manure pit is now recovering at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in Lancaster County.A state game warden brought the bird in on July 18 after it had been stuck in ...