Whether you’ve observed five long-eared owls roosting in thick blackthorn, a barn owl hunting a road at dusk or a little brown owl peeping out from a hole in a tree, the one feature they all have in ...

Joining the ranks are long-eared owls (Asio otus), which have been found to have feathers that glow pink under ultraviolet light (UV). Researchers collected feathers from the owls during the ...

So to study them, Holt stomps into the brush like an Imperial AT-AT Walker, enduring burdock thistles and inch-long hawthorn spikes and 3-foot-deep dry stream channels as he flush ...

"Our study shows that female Long-eared Owls have a much higher concentration of these pigments in their feathers, challenging a common misconception that colorful plumage is a 'male' trait," said ...

Short-eared owls are a resident species ... The birds are about 35cm long with a wingspan of 105cm. They weigh an average of 350g. Typically, they have yellow-white and dark brown feathers.

In a study recently published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, the researchers report their discovery of fluorescent pigments in the feathers of Long-eared Owls, that can only be seen by humans ...

Researchers report their discovery of fluorescent pigments in the feathers of Long-eared Owls, that can only be seen by humans with the help of ultraviolet light. While there is an astounding ...