These “plumicorns” resemble horns or, to some, catlike ears. Great horned owls are adaptable birds and live from the Arctic to South America. They are at home in suburbia as well as in woods ...

Birds have many different shaped beaks depending on their diet. Carnivores – Animals which eat meat. Birds of prey like owls and hawks are carnivores and eat animals and other birds. Many other ...

and the Mexican spotted owl is the Southwest's most famous old-growth resident. Unfortunately, by the late 1980s — at the height of logging operations in the national forests — biologists estimated ...

Cactus ferruginous pygmy owls are named for the saguaro cactuses they live in, their rusty-colored stripes, and their small size. They’re as fierce as they are small: These 2.5-ounce raptors prey on ...