If owls weren’t stunning enough to begin with, a traffic camera in Montreal has perfectly captured how graceful they can appear, even while blanketed in snow. A series of images were snapped ...

Great Gray Owls hunting voles under snow hover to defeat an acoustic mirage. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2022; 289 (1987) DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1164 Cite This Page : ...

Two inches of snow ruined most of the South. You’ve seen the Walking Dead references, now read the analysis of how a small winter storm froze an entire region, meteorologically and logistically.

What is this organism? Where is it found? When am I likely to see it? And, most interesting and most difficult to answer, why ...

Barn owls have particular difficulty finding food when there is snow cover, which prevents them getting to their prey of small mammals.

If owls weren’t stunning enough to begin with, a traffic camera in Montreal has perfectly captured how graceful they can appear, even while blanketed in snow. A series of images were snapped ...

Several of great gray owls' physical features, especially parts of their wings and face, help them correct for sonic distortions caused by snow, enabling them to find hidden, moving food with ...

Often mistaken for mice, voles have high-pitched voices that get lost under snow cover. However, their digging and chewing sounds beam straight onto the owls' facial radar.