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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

Owl sightings aren’t unusual in West Texas. You might spot a great horned owl in Alpine or Marfa, a barn owl in a farm ...

December and January we are wakened just before dawn by the calls of a pair of Great Horned Owls. (Are you up…me too-me too?) The males are returning to the territories of their mates. (After the ...

If you have day-hiked in the Smokies, you have undoubtedly been monitored, unawares, from a tree cavity. The unseen watcher? A winged super-predator resting with one eye open, waiting for dusk or ...

For months, viewers who tuned into a livestream of a famed Hilton Head nest watched as two baby owls flourished. Great horned owls, dubbed HH5 and HH6, born in February and raised by parents Joshua ...

If you have day-hiked in the Smokies, you have undoubtedly been monitored, unawares, from a tree cavity. The unseen watcher? A winged super-predator resting with one eye open, waiting for dusk or ...

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 ...

A great horned owl was able to survive a gnarly encounter with a barbed wire fence thanks to a little help from a friend in law enforcement. Fort Bend County Constable Sgt. Harrell Clark was at a red ...