If you have day-hiked in the Smokies, you have undoubtedly been monitored, unawares, from a tree cavity. The unseen watcher? A winged super-predator resting with one eye open, waiting for dusk or ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s something so awe-inspiring about catching sight of an owl. Unlike almost all other birds of prey, ...

Five Halloween black-clad witches stand watch in our front yard. Robins strut around them to search the ground for worms, oblivious to the evil omens foretelling "toil and trouble," as in ...

With the appearance of a snowy owl Wednesday, the suite of predators that visit the Red River Valley from the north is complete. The snowy owl was a first of the season for me, and I've had only one ...

Fleeing isn’t the only way by which songbirds can protect themselves against predators. Many songbird species are known to engage in mobbing, where they gather aggressively around a bird of prey, ...

I had my second encounter with a great gray owl last week. After completing a day’s work, I went to the Spencer Mountain system on the north end where several trails embark from near the mouth of ...

Powerful owls prey on possums, and even koalas, but local bird watchers are excited by the discovery of new pairs in South ...

As a great horned owl mother was attending to her newborn owlets on a cloudless morning, a predator disturbed the calm, swooping into her home aloft a pine tree. The mamma owl, known as Bayley, did ...

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High atop the branches of an Eastern white pine, the alarm sounds near midnight. “Hoo-hoohoo-hoo” goes the call. It’s the unmistakable hoot of Pennsylvania’s own tiger of the air – the great horned ...