But some birds are total badasses—they swoop down, talons ready, and take on one of nature’s most feared creatures: snakes.

Karla Kinstler adopted Alice, a great horned owl, after she fell from her nest as an owlet and broke her wing in 1997. The centerpiece of the International Festival of Owls just laid an egg at 12 ...

I had two incidents with crows. The first occurred while traveling on Route 6 when I noticed a crow feeding on a dead opossum, which was lying in the middle of my traffic lane. As I drove closer to ...

Iris, a great horned owl with the International Owl Center in Houston, MN, sits in her outdoor enclosure as a European starling takes flight in front of her Sunday, June 1, 2025.

The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is a marvel of evolutionary engineering, capable of something that seems almost magical—silent flight. In the dark woods of North America, these magnificent ...

Reader Todd Mackinaw recently admired how the great horned owl can thrive from the Brooks Range in Alaska all the way to Uruguay in South America. The knee-high owl, known for its “plumicorns” — tufts ...

From fierce talons to stolen nests, the great horned owl’s wild success across two continents — and its surprising connection to hares — is a story of survival, strength and ...

One reason great horned owls may range so far is that they will eat anything they can grab. A few years ago, a teenage neighbor of ours shoved a great horned owl off his 7-pound dog in the driveway.

A great horned owl was able to survive a gnarly encounter with a barbed wire fence thanks to a little help from a friend in law enforcement. Fort Bend County Constable Sgt. Harrell Clark was at a ...

The great horned owl can thrive from the Brooks Range in Alaska all the way to Uruguay in South America. ... Biologists have also documented hares eating soil at mineral licks in the Wiseman area.

A great horned owl was able to survive a gnarly encounter with a barbed wire fence thanks to a little help from a friend in law enforcement. Fort Bend County Constable Sgt. Harrell Clark was at a ...

The great horned owl is the largest of the three common Ohio breeding owls (the others being the eastern screech and barred owls). Females are larger than males, and a big specimen might weigh 3.5 ...