At dusk on Tuesday, the adult male Saw-whet owl, who was found caught in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree earlier this month, was released back into the wild by the ...

The MSU scientist published a book called “Bird Coloration” with fellow ornithologist Geoffrey Hill from Auburn University. Together they previously studied the phenomenon of yellow northern cardinals ...

DESCRIPTION: The northern spotted owl is a medium-sized, dark brown owl with a barred tail ... large accumulations of woody debris, snags, and tree deformities. Trees with broken tops, deformed limbs, ...

Initially a star, the Burgoyne family's 'tree topper' became a wild barred owl after it flew into their ... for their round heads with no ear tufts, brown eyes, and horizontal barring on their ...

Siri Stafford/Getty What a hoot! Earlier this week, a Kentucky family was surprised to learn that a baby owl had been living undetected in a Christmas tree inside their home for four days.