Unlike the snowy owl, the barn owl lives at latitudes where it doesn’t regularly snow. The barn owl’s paradoxically bright plumage baffled biologist Juanjo Negro and his colleagues ...

But the barn owl has a pure white underbelly, which would seem to make it easy for prey to detect. It also has a round white face. The team wondered if the unique coloring helps the owl to blend ...

The chicks should be ready to take flight later this month The first chicks have hatched as part of a project to boost barn owl numbers in North Yorkshire. More than 50 specially-designed nesting ...

Both models were used in fluid flow simulations conducted at speeds of a gliding flight approach of the owl. Methods used in the study involved large eddy simulation and the Ffowcs-Williams ...

A barn owl pair, considered to be one of Northern Ireland's most threatened farmland birds, have welcomed an "extremely late" winter brood. Four chicks were discovered at a nest in Ballycruttle ...

In this short film for primary schools Michaela Strachan visits an owl sanctuary with some primary school pupils to find out how a barn owl is ... adaption for silent flight, lots of extra bones ...