Negro and his team’s latest research suggests instead that the barn owl’s brilliant white plumage is in fact a form of nocturnal camouflage or counter-illumination that gives the hunter an ...

“It’s great camouflage.” While the owls are year-round residents of Western Pennsylvania, Handel was excited to hear about the bird’s residence in Aspinwall. She said the owls, which ...

THE ‘hill hooter’, ‘screech owl’, ‘ivy owl’ or ‘wood owl’ – these are some of the nicknames this British owl has gained.