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A small woodland night hunter, with its piercing yellow eyes and distinctive ear tufts, silently prowls forests across Asia. The Oriental Scops-owl is a small owl with prominent ear tufts and large ...

(THE CONVERSATION) An international team of biologists has discovered a tiny new species of owl, called the Príncipe scops owl, living in a remote forest on an island off the west coast of Africa.

We had hardly entered the park grounds when a small owl left its perch on top of the cricket nets and flew towards our property. We quickly advanced to the hedge by the picket fence and when I peeked ...