Manhattan's Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: a family of barn owls nested in a ...

Rare barn owls with 'horror movie' screech take up residence in NYC neighborhood - A migration ecologist called the discovery ...

The city’s latest feathered extraordinaires are captivating the Upper West Side with their screeches. By Christopher Maag The shriek came at nightfall, breathy, high-pitched and startling. Elisabeth ...

A family of Barn owls is proving to be a real hoot on the Upper West Side. Following West Side Rag’s October 4 story about a Barn owl sighting in a building courtyard on West 75th Street, between ...

Twilight has given way to night and the stars are twinkling in the sky. A harsh ‘kewick’ call pierces the darkness and moments later is answered by a soft ‘hooo, hooo’. The tawny owl is calling for ...

Earlier this week, New Yorkers were alerted to the presence of silvery, ghostlike figures among us, gliding through the sky, perching on windowsills, congregating on water towers, and emitting a ...

Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. Hearing one owl at night already feels like stepping into another world. But three owls, all calling on the ...

New York’s newest celebrity resident is a real hoot. An American Barn Owl has been spotted living in the big city — and he’s making sure all of Manhattan knows he’s here. The critter — with a ...