For the first time in nearly a decade, a barn owl has been spotted living on a farm in Washington County, which is in western Pennsylvania.Barn owls were once a common sight on Pennsylvania farms, but ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The Almanack shares a compilation of its five best owl feature stories over the years, pulled from the archives.

An owl with the word "barn" in its name would seem to imply that this bird would be a common inhabitant of the agricultural Midwest. But due to loss of foraging and nesting habitat and the widespread ...

The barn owl, one of Canada's most endangered owls, isn't native to Alberta and is considered extremely rare anywhere in the ...

If you've never heard a barn owl screech, you may not realize just how loud they can be. In a room full of volunteers and conservation officials, the fledglings inside a Bois D'Arc Conservation Area ...

Rats, mice and gophers cause damage to homes, businesses, cropland and pastures across Cleveland County. A colony of just 100 rats will consume over one ton of grain per year and contaminate 10 times ...

When I was a boy growing up in the tobacco farming country of the south-central Virginia piedmont, there were haunted barns and other outbuildings throughout the region. My friends and I knew they ...

Many of us here in west Texas are familiar with the largest of the owls, the great horned owl. Its “whoo-whoo-whoo” song resounds throughout the southwest evenings. Some of us have even observed one ...

When most people think of a pet, they consider the usual array of creatures, like dogs, cats, or fish. A few like small rodents like rats or guinea pigs. Some folks are into reptiles. And then, of ...