This is the heartwarming moment wildlife staff returned a fallen owlet into its nest using a cherry picker. National Parks ...

The Eurasian owl named Flaco was last seen by zoo officials in Central Park. ... They are notable for their pumpkin-orange eyes and ear tufts, with an expected lifespan of 20 years.

The internal structure of an owl eye is special, too. Most vertebrates have rod cells and cone cells in their eyes. ... Some owls do that with the soft tissues – like our ear flaps.

Females are larger than males, and a big specimen might weigh 3.5 pounds and have a wingspan of 4 feet. Large ear tufts cap the head, and glaring yellow eyes are set within ocher-colored facial discs.

The great horned owl siblings that call a nest on a Hilton Head, SC, pine tree home, ... HH5 and HH6 have piercing yellow eyes, and their ear tufts are beginning to show.

That’s just so remarkable. It was really almost four or five decades ago, in the 1960s, that the famous biologist Roger Payne, he showed that an owl can actually catch a mouse in the pitch black, ...

In her latest, "What an Owl Knows" (Penguin Press), she explores the secrets of the world's most enigmatic bird, from their biology, behavior and communication, to the curious cultural presence ...

Proportionately enormous eyes contain many more rods and cones than yours do, and these uber-peepers allow the owl to see through the night’s gloom. The prey will never know what hit it.

A barred owl owlet was seen bopping its head back and froth, all while looking up at the Barred Owl Cam. This head-bobbing is a common behavior for owls. They have forward-facing eyes, which are ...