In the Pacific Northwest, hunters are seeking out the invasive barred owl in an effort to save the threatened northern ...

Tom Lubnau writes: "The sculpture depicts a barn owl in flight, representing wisdom and the rural roots of these five ...

The oldest known barn owl lived to at least 15 years old, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

In eastern wooded suburbs, this small, owl is often the most common avian predator ... crepuscular and occasion­ally diurnal; it nests in old wood­pecker holes or natural tree cavities and ...

old buildings and tree cavities. Seventy-six nest-boxes were also checked across the countryside last summer for signs of barn owl activity, as well as surveying 11 potential new breeding sites.

They constructed a barn owl puppet out of an old umbrella and wrote an original song telling the story of a farmer visited by an “omen of death” in the form of an owl that acts as the Grim Reaper.

Barn owls previously used old buildings or large tree holes to nest ... South Shropshire RSPB celebrate the barn owl. Photo: Geoff Hall Families are welcome to come and visit and learn more ...