It was well north of 3 a.m. when the soft hooting of a distant great horned owl pulled me from the gentle arms of Morpheus, that mythological god of sleep and dreams. In the heat and stillness of the ...

Of all the creative ways to strike up a gobble, the owl hoot is a tried-and-true classic. But in all the times you’ve let “who cooks for you” rip, have you ever stopped to wonder why turkeys often ...

What better way to take the cure for cabin fever than get outside and listen to hooting owls on a cold winter night? That’s what drew us last weekend to Jerry Hightower’s “Owl Prowl” at the ...

Trina Whitener makes animal noises for a living. As a naturalist/field specialist at Valley Park’s World Bird Sanctuary, she’s one of several folks who lead the organi­zation’s instructional Owl ...

An owl’s head does not, in fact, turn a full 360 degrees. Its ear holes are lopsided in order to better pinpoint sound and locate prey. And, on some species, feathers glow under ultraviolet light.