The Almanack shares a compilation of its five best owl feature stories over the years, pulled from the archives.

Spotting an owl glide through the treetops is a thrilling experience, its silhouette a shadow against the twilight sky. A hallmark of owls is their completely silent flight. But when they do make ...

If you've never heard a barn owl screech, you may not realize just how loud they can be. In a room full of volunteers and conservation officials, the fledglings inside a Bois D'Arc Conservation Area ...

CHAMPAIGN -- “Birds of omen, dark and foul,” wrote Sir Walter Scott about owls, once considered harbingers of doom, death, and destruction. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches and an ...

When the cloak of night sweeps across the earth, and the moon stretches our shadows, careful little creatures begin scanning the skies for predators that stalk on silent wings — the owls. Four species ...

When this Yorke Peninsula woman heard shrieking noises coming from her fireplace she moved out of her bedroom – but it was her cute find that has inspired her. Watch the video. “I started to hear ...