And let's take a moment to listen to the sounds of your backyard, or one like yours. OK, that's not actually a bird whistling reveille. But when we invited people to send us sounds of nature, we heard ...

Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image via Shutterstock/KJ Quraish (Image via Shutterstock/KJ Quraish) Located in Dover, Pennsylvania, the West Shore ...

Owls are more often heard than seen. In New York, there are eight species of these interesting raptors, with the majority most active at night. Some live here year-round, some are migratory. They ...

Many species of owl are able to hunt in effective silence by suppressing their noise at sound frequencies above 1.6 kilohertz (kHz) - over the range that can be heard by humans. A team of researchers ...

When I think of owls, I picture majestic birds swooping down silently from the skies. Sometimes I think of the mesmerizing ways they move their heads, or the huge eyes that stare into your soul. But ...

A listener responded to our invitation to send recordings of backyard wildlife with audio of a spooky bird screech. An expert at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology helped solve the mystery. OK, that's not ...

Located in Dover, Pennsylvania, the West Shore Wildlife Center provides emergency and rehabilitation services for sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife. In a recent video, they featured new Patient ...