Which brings us—at long last—to the owl, and a new book, Death by Talons: Did an Owl ‘Murder’ Kathleen Peterson? by Tiddy Smith, from Wild Blue Press. With this book, Smith has parlayed ...

"Soon," National Geographic tweeted in 2019 with a slo-mo video of an owl headed toward the camera with reaching talons and narrowed eyes. Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary ...

Owls have powerful talons. Like eagles and hawks, owls are birds of prey, which means they use sharp talons to hunt other animals. An owl can grip with either three toes in front and one behind ...

In the pin-drop quiet, it bounced along the balustrade. I never heard its talons touch the metal. The owl itself, I knew, had such sharp hearing that it could make out a possum’s heart pounding ...

In a newspaper, I read about a barred owl in Vancouver, British Columbia, startling people at a bus stop as it swooped past with talons full of pigeon. And in my hometown of Victoria, British ...

That arsenal includes extremely sharp beaks and talons owls use to capture prey. And while owls swallow smaller prey whole, larger prey is torn to shreds and swallowed in smaller pieces.