Earlier this week, I had a late afternoon coffee date in Larimore, North Dakota. On my way home, north on state Highway 18, I glanced left to look at the sunset and I spied a short-eared owl. Thus, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A short-eared owl hunts from a perch. Ohio’s six species of regularly occurring owls are generally much easier to hear than see.

Standing on a country road in the middle of a reclaimed strip mine — Bear Run Mine in Sullivan County — we patiently await sundown for the show of short-eared owls. A colorful, lone coyote is spotted ...

I’ve spent much, much more time looking for owls than I’ve spent actually seeing them. Most of my looking has been in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming for great gray owls. I figured I would have a decent ...

I am no stranger to winter weather. After all, I do live in the frozen northland. So, I really didn’t think much about it when I went out the other day to photograph some owls. I had in mind the shot ...

The circular facial disc of the short-eared owl acts like a dish receiver, capturing sound and funneling it to the ears. The ear openings are asymmetrical, allowing the owl to triangulate sound and ...

Short-eared owls don’t have short ears, but they have several characteristics that aren’t usually associated with owls. One noticeable difference is that short-eared owls don’t hoot. Most of their ...

Pygmy owls are an adorably small bird species that make their home in Europe. Their habitat spans as far north as Norway and east into China. But the tiny bird of prey now has a new home base: the Val ...