BELLINGHAM -- Somewhere, as you read this, a long-legged, heart-faced barn owl is stretching out its neck and delicately upchucking. Out drops a compact pellet of undigested lunch, which falls ...

“What an Owl Knows,” by Jennifer Ackerman, is peppered with fascinating facts, photos and superlatives.

Hoosier, a barn owl with a gorgeous, snowy heart-shaped face, also is a puppy at heart. On a frigid late winter morning at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, the 15-year-old owl has checked off a couple ...

BELLINGHAM — Somewhere, as you read this, a long-legged, heart-faced barn owl is stretching out its neck and delicately upchucking. Out drops a compact pellet of undigested lunch, which falls ...

The barn owl (Tyto alba), with its characteristic heart-shaped face, is found on every continent except Antarctica. The most widespread owl species, the barn owl hunts at night over open land.

With more than 60 possums in her living room during "baby season," Lynne McCoy's house is never quiet — or boring.

In an ironic twist, the owl named for its knack for nesting in old wooden barns has become a rarity in America’s heartland. Barn owls, beautiful, heart-faced birds with coal-black eyes, have … ...

First there is the barn owl, which is actually a state-endangered species. They have that quintessential heart-shaped face and prefer open spaces.