The great horned owl is the most common owl of the Americas, easily recognizable because of the feather tufts on its head. These “plumicorns” resemble horns or, to some, catlike ears.

Its distribution is shaped by the distribution of forest land that has been protected from destruction and logging: even-aged timber harvest systems that replace old growth spell lost habitat and ...

The Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC) is currently caring for a great horned owl that was found stuck in a pile of cow manure in the southern Alberta town of Picture Butte, which ...