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Mid-December is a time of cold, snow, ice and darkness. Though the cold, snow and ice may vary from year to year, the darkness is a consistent annual phenomenon. We will soon be at the winter solstice ...

Take one good look at an owl, and you'll probably see why they're described in the lore of many world cultures as grave and powerful creatures, often tending toward dark and deadly prophecies and ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Virginia came to the rescue of a large owl found entangled in netting. The New Kent County Sheriff's Office Animal Protection Unit said on social media that a pair ...

The great horned owl is an appropriate bird for Halloween week and for early November. Halloween is a holiday of the other world, the one we don't know and so feel anxious about. Halloween mocks death ...

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 ...

What Does a Barred Owl Look Like? Barred owls are large brownish and white striped or “barred” raptors with no visible feather tufts on their heads. Unlike many of its owl relatives with yellow eyes, ...

Until Thursday afternoon, I thought snowy owls might have overlooked us in this year's invasion. But then I saw a single snowy owl. Of course, a single owl does not an invasion make, but perhaps it is ...