Marjon Savelsberg, a Maastricht-based owl researcher, will receive the Special Achievement Award on Saturday at the ...

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 Eurasian ...

In the birding community, the moment an owl embarks upon its day is known as “flyout.” Flyout is a devout time, akin to “wheels up” in the Presidential schedule. Observers wait for hours with heavy ...

It was a cold winter’s night and my beautiful wife Susan and I were watching movies. There was a fire crackling in the wood stove, we were enjoying good food and drink and we were both all snoodled up ...

That owls are familiar Harry Potter icons is just the latest incarnation of a human fascination with owls that predates recorded history. In particular, a depiction of either a Eurasian eagle owl or ...