Like most owls, barred owls are ... They are a medium-sized owl with a wingspan of up to 49 inches and an average height of 24 inches.They have a large round head without “ear” tufts and have ...

Other owls have flat faces with special feathers that focus sound, essentially turning their faces into one big ear. (The “ear tufts” on some owls are feathers and don’t have anything to do ...

The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) is the only large North American owl with ear tufts that are commonly referred to as "horns." With a wingspan often measuring 55 inches ...

Large ear tufts cap the head, and glaring yellow eyes are set within ocher-colored facial discs. Because of their strictly nocturnal habits, great horned owls are more commonly heard than seen.

It's an owl eyeball, seen through the unusually large ear opening in a northern saw-whet owl's head. (Image credit: Photo courtesy of Jim McCormac) Some say that eyes are the windows to the soul.

Northland Nature: Resident winter owls loom large Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books.

Critters Short Ears, Big Wings, Can’t Lose Short-eared owls are disappearing along with the Texas prairie. But for now, they’re putting on a show outside Manor.

Of some 260 owl species at large in the night, at dusk, and less commonly during daylight, many are stealthily camouflaged and decked out with decibel-dampening feathers, their shrieks floating ...

Let’s step into the quiet world of nighttime owls and uncover what makes them such extraordinary nocturnal creatures. ...

The giant fish owl of Russia’s Far East is a raptor as big as an eagle but more portly, with enormous ear tufts.