This is a lousy photo of a Great Horned Owl, except that it shows the shape of the wings well. The bird had flushed, and was flying away from me. You can see that the wings are broad all the way ...

Ms. Ackerman is the author of “What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds,” from which this essay is excerpted. When the first lucky observers spotted Flaco, the ...

It isn’t just wing proportion that allows owls to move silently. They evolved to have special feather structures that dampen sound. As Audubon magazine explains, the leading edges of owl wing ...

The researchers found that the fringed wing was up to 6.5 dB quieter than the bare wing, depending on the angle of flight. It only takes one loud wing flap to alert an owl's prey, so every decibel ...

MADURAI: A barn owl that suffered a fracture on its left wing underwent a surgery in a govt veterinary hospital in Madurai on Thursday. The bird, a sub-adult aged more than a year, was found ...