Owls Are Deadly, but Birds Are Smart To a human being, the sight of an owl with its piercing gaze and formidable size is impressive, but to a bird, it must be terrifying. Owls have special feathers on their wings to mute the sound of flapping, and they are daring flyers, sometimes at...
the barred owl, in the soaring old-growth evergreens of Washington, Oregon and California where spotted owls nest and hunt. One experiment included in the plan: shooting hundreds of barred owls to see whether that helps spotted owls recover. Even after all these years since the spotted owl bec...