Owls, with their earth-toned feathers, are masters of camouflage. But not the barn owl. Adorned with striking white plumage ...

Unlike the snowy owl, the barn owl lives at latitudes where it doesn’t regularly snow. The barn owl’s paradoxically bright plumage baffled biologist Juanjo Negro and his colleagues ...

But the barn owl has a pure white underbelly, which would seem to make it easy for prey to detect. It also has a round white face. The team wondered if the unique coloring helps the owl to blend ...