WATSONVILLE >> The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Seeing a barn owl out in the open during daylight is a good sign something is very wrong. This bird ordinarily roosts in a hidden spot during the day, taking flight to hunt only as ...

Natural predators come in all sizes, shapes and classes. There are generalists that eat whatever they can get a hold of to specialists that just hunt and consume certain species in a particular way.

After their nests were destroyed, 15 orphaned baby barn owls from Central Washington found their new home in Washington State University’s Horticulture Center. The owls were left defenseless after the ...

Flying silently through Nick Davis’ almond orchard, a barn owl swoops through the blossoming trees, listening for the slightest rustling of what could be its next meal. With one-inch talons and a grip ...

WATSONVILLE — The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...