If you look quickly, you might mistake this swimming owl for a seabird. In fact, owls are not natural in water and rarely ...

Making the predator more visible to the rodent prey, which freeze in fear, the owls’ whiteness made voles easier to kill, the prior study found. Negro and his team’s latest research suggests ...

Watching for predators, she lays one egg about every two days. Altogether, she may lay around a dozen, depending on food availability. “Brown lemmings are the bottom line for snowy owls here ...

In this case they act as a deterrent to predators, making attackers think they are suddenly facing a larger and potentially dangerous animal. The central and South American genus Caligo has large ...

In this short film for primary schools Michaela Strachan visits an owl sanctuary with some primary school pupils to find out how a barn owl is adapted to be a successful predator. She explains ...

Owl populations cycle in a similar manner, closely following the abundance of voles. As predator populations increase, they put greater strain on the prey populations and act as a top-down control ...

A surefire and highly optimistic harbinger of spring is the great horned owl. The massive owl is the first Ohio bird species ...

As evening looms it takes to the air to battle with the other males in hope of getting a date.' Researchers think the dark owl eyes on its wings are a case of camouflage, warding off predators by ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. The researchers tell The Independent that this is the first instance of Batesian mimicry—where a harmless species imitates another, more dangerous one to protect ...