Barn owls pull off something that seems almost impossible: striking prey with lethal accuracy in pitch-black darkness, guided by nothing but sound. The secret lies in a strange quirk of their anatomy ...

Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on rodents scurrying along the ground below. Scientists have long puzzled over a ...

A team of biology and optics researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in Spain has found that the unique undercoating of the barn owl helps to make it less visible to prey when flying under ...

Some nights are predestined to be mysterious and frightening. On such nights, we are alone in a park, forest, vaulted cellar, warehouse, or big old house, perhaps a castle. It’s so dark that we can ...

Last Friday afternoon while looking for wildlife to capture with my camera, I was fooling around west of Mud Lake when I saw a male barn owl attempting a “moth-flight” maneuver. He was trying to ...

What I call the Owl Relativity Theory could add solidity to the idea that barn owls have much wider distribution in Minnesota than ever imagined. These could be itinerant barn owls, but barn owls ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The barn owl is one type of owl you can spot in Tennessee.© Henk Bogaard/ via Getty Images The post How Barn Owls Use Mismatched ...