I am interested in getting an owl box. I have researched the Hungry Owl Project on the Internet, but I can’t find out which type of owl frequents our area. A friend in Grass Valley has the same ...

A barn owl. Photo by Peter K. Burian, courtesy of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Press release from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission: The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is asking the ...

Natural predators come in all sizes, shapes and classes. There are generalists that eat whatever they can get a hold of to specialists that just hunt and consume certain species in a particular way.

Because one S.C. Department of Natural Resources employee decided to invest his time and talent, barn owls on the South Carolina coast are thriving and contributing to the knowledge of another species ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

We installed a barn owl nest box in a backyard tree. We want to attract owls so they will eat rodents that are active at night. But fox squirrels moved into the owl nest box and are using it for their ...

Backyard bird-watchers looking for Santa Claus may have better luck watching December night skies for the magnificent barn owl. These beautiful white ghosts of the night silently hunt in darkness and ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A pair of barn owls have made their home in a nest box at the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has a live stream that looks into ...

BirdWatch Ireland's Dr Alan McCarthy ringing a barn owl chick in East Cork (taken under licence from NPWS). Photo: Peter McCarthy. Adult barn owl. The bird’s numbers are growing in Cork (taken under ...

A ghost-like barn owl flying low over open farmland at dawn or dusk is one of Nature’s hold-your-breath sights. The iconic beauty Tyto alba is a brilliantly adapted nocturnal predator, its soft ...

Dear Gary: After seeing and hearing barn owls in our backyard last summer and fall, we decided to put up a barn owl nest box. It is on a pine tree trunk, approximately 20 feet above the ground.