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 ...

Lexie Echols received an urgent call from her sister-in-law in late May. Driving through green pastures southeast of Corvallis, something had caught her attention. A barn owl was trapped on a barbed ...

There are 140 species of owls worldwide in the owl family called Strigidae, 18 of which reside in North America, including barred, long-eared, short-eared, great horned, screech, saw whet and snowy — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to build an owl nesting box, and it's easier than you might ...