A family of barn owls has taken up residence on a water tower in Manhattan's Upper West Side, marking a historic first for the borough. Residents were initially startled by the screeching sounds that ...

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

Historic nesting confirmed: An ecologist has verified that barn owls are breeding in Manhattan for the first time on record. Rare urban occurrence: This October marks a uniquely rare case of barn owls ...

Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. If you have ever lain awake at night while an owl called again and again outside your window, you know how ...

People are very good at pinpointing the source of a sound, but not as good as barn owls. With their ears, barn owls can pinpoint the source of a sound with exceptional accuracy, which comes in handy ...

An Owl’s hoot means…There are sounds that belong to the mountains after dark. Wind moving through the trees. The steady chorus of insects. A creek somewhere below the house. A dog barking at something ...

Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. Most people assume a swooping owl is just “getting lucky” in the dark – a random drop onto an unlucky mouse ...