The cute endearing barn owl orphans that wildlife rehabilitator Pearl Beamer cared for and released in Pungo recently have one not so endearing quality. They are noisy little rascals and they made ...

One of the most elusive and mysterious owls of Ohio is the barn owl (Tyto alba). This very large predator, measuring 16 inches long with a wingspan of 3 ½ feet, has a heart-shaped face, large dark ...

When most birds take flight, their wingbeats cause a ruckus; this is typically a repetitive ‘swooshing’ noise generated by the rushing air that gets pushed by the gliding animal’s wings. Barn owls, on ...

You aren't even aware of the echo." Takahashi studies hearing in barn owls with the goal of understanding the fundamentals of sound processing so that future hearing aids, for example, might be ...

He’s only 40, but Richard Fritsky sounds like an old-timer when he recalls how barn owls used to flourish anywhere there was a farm or an open field. “Barn owl populations have lost a lot of their ...

Predicting the future state of the world is essential for generating adaptive behavior. For example, to orient the eyes toward a moving stimulus, an animal must predict the future position of the ...

The way barn owl brains use sound to locate prey may be a template for electronic directional navigation devices, according to a team of Penn State engineers who are recreating owl brain circuitry in ...

(WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) released a post showing owls you can find in Pennsylvania and included links to the sounds they make. According to a Facebook post from the PGC, owls ...