The same spooky setting is associated with the night screams of the barn owl (Tyto alba). English naturalist Gilbert White, writing in the 1780s, said the owl’s cries had whole villages ...

For hundreds of years, a handsome, dark-brown owl with white spots has made its home in the lush, "old-growth" forests of the Pacific Northwest. Under the multilayered canopies of these 200-year-old ...