A great horned owl perches in a tree at City Park in Appleton March 20, 2022. (Photo submitted by Jim Malueg) Nestled in a nearby pine, the male great horned owl is watching, too, Gerlach says.

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 ...

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.

Great horned owls are common over much of Ohio and are sometimes found in urban and suburban areas. I once saw the ghostly shape of an owl float across the intersection of High Street and 17th ...