With its banshee call, dark eyes, and bright white face, a barn owl could pass for a winged ghost, moving silently against the night sky. In fact, many cultures associate the barn owl with superstition. In England, where barn owls often live in graveyards, one of these birds flying by ...
The barn owl is a distinctive pale brown and white bird that can often be seen hunting over farmland either at dawn or at dusk. Its ghostly, silent flight and evil-sounding shriek have given the species a number of alternative names, including ‘death owl’, ‘demon owl’, ‘ghost owl’...
Now is the right to learn some of the most fascinatingbarn owl facts for kidsincluding barn owl habitat, diet, breeding and its behavior. The barn owl (Tyto alba) is one of the most common birds in the world as well as widely distributed owl species. These owls are commonly known as C...
Birds of prey such as falcons, hawks, and owls are the primary predators of adult barn swallows. Some birds that commonly hunt and eat mature barn swallows are the cooper’s hawk, red-tailed hawk, Eurasian sparrow hawk, and eastern screech owl. Eggs and hatchlings have a large array of ...
Compared to other Barn Owl books I own, this one is more towards the academic end of the scale, but I was delighted that its style is engaging and approachable to anyone who is fascinated by owls and how they live. Rather than dense text, Roulin has chosen to create eleven chapters, ea...
I was at the Owl’s Head Museum the day after the auction, and the Superbird he won was just sitting there on the floor, so I got to get a real close-up look at it. It was simply stunning. I’ve always liked these cars. Selling these 2 off was no problem for him, since he ...