Barn owls, the birds most fretted over by the nation's conservationists, are at last responding to years of tender care and attention. Last year, a record number of chicks fledged, and the species ...

Barn owls have the same special neurons — 'place cells' — that let humans make mental maps of their surroundings and these may aid their navigation while flying.. This is the conclusion of a ...

Strictly nocturnal, barn owls hunt by flying slowly over open fields at night or dusk. They specialize in hunting small ground mammals, and the vast majority of their food consists of small ...

A woman shared her video of a barn owl flying around the inside of her home after it made an unexpected visit, and the Hogwarts jokes started winging their way to her via online comments.

The barn owl’s tail plays an unexpected role in flight by making the bird more aerodynamic, which may have implications for drone design. In aeronautical engineering, anything that provides lift ...

Owls may make maps of their surroundings in their brains just like humans do. The fact that this ability has been seen in mammals and non-mammals could suggest it evolved hundreds of millions of ...