WATSONVILLE — The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...

Natural predators come in all sizes, shapes and classes. There are generalists that eat whatever they can get a hold of to specialists that just hunt and consume certain species in a particular way.

Dear Gary: After seeing and hearing barn owls in our backyard last summer and fall, we decided to put up a barn owl nest box. It is on a pine tree trunk, approximately 20 feet above the ground.

“A little more over that way, between those two boards, I think” she said. “That gives us room to open the access door.” A day spent with Amy Kearns setting up nesting boxes for barn owls was a day ...

GARDINER — A couple of Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue’s “retired” barn owls help raise young owls in need. During a new fundraising raffle this fall, North Olympic Peninsula residents can, too.

Flying silently through Nick Davis’ almond orchard, a barn owl swoops through the blossoming trees, listening for the slightest rustling of what could be its next meal. With one-inch talons and a grip ...

OAK HARBOR, Ohio (WTVG) - Owl mania is taking over Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. The sanctuary for birds and bird watchers on the shoreline of Lake Erie built an international audience this year ...

WATSONVILLE >> The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...