The great horned owl is the most common owl of the Americas, easily recognizable because of the feather tufts on its head. These “plumicorns” resemble horns or, to some, catlike ears.

The Great Horned Owl chicks were only just starting to look ... and from there they watched as the kids began to test their luck — and wings — on the branches adjacent to the nest.

That was the case at Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia last weekend, when staff from the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center released a great horned ... the owl’s primary flight feathers ...

Jim focused his binoculars on a great horned ... in the owl’s leg and dug so deeply into the skin to cause infection. The owl had also tried to chew the fishing line off of its wing, which ...

Silent flightOwls have specialised wing feathers that ... From the tiny Elf Owl, which is about the size of a soda can, to the imposing Great Horned Owl with a wingspan of up to five feet, owls ...

Owls, with their earth-toned feathers ... ever seen a barn owl? Probably not. It’s as if they are ghosts. Like ghosts, barn owls are white for a reason. Unlike the great horned owl that scans ...