The northern hawk owl is a rare winter visitor in Southern Canada as it rarely leaves its breeding range of northern latitudes where open conifer forests, bogs and muskegs abound.

Marcellay was ticketed for killing the northern hawk owl near his Cassimer Bar area homesite on Jan. 2, apparently because he was annoyed by the flocks of birdwatchers lured from several states ...

We casually made our way over to where they were standing. Imagine our surprise as they pointed out the northern hawk-owl, which had swooped into the protection of spruces just moments before!

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There was much excitement this winter, among birders and photographers, over the sightings of a northern hawk owl on the wetlands. What captured my fancy was its face. In addition to some classy ...

Q:I’m a big owl fan and have seen several kinds, especially the great horned owl. But I wonder: Why I don’t ever see short-eared owls? A:These tawny owls with their dramatically outlined eyes spend ...

Great Gray Owl Owls come in all sizes. The largest owl out there is the great gray owl, which can reach up to 2-1/2 feet in length! This big, charismatic species of the northern boreal forests has ...

Blind River is using owl and hawk kites to scare geese away from its waterfront. Mayor Sally Hagman says the chemical-free method seems to be working, keeping parks and beaches cleaner. If ...

Bouncing among 20 volleyball-like nets every 45 minutes, they're gathering nocturnal birds drawn by the audio recordings of northern saw-whet and long-eared owl calls broadcast by the nets into ...

Snowy and superb. A Snowy owl in Cypress, California. Nick Ut/Getty Images This owl has beautiful coloring on top of being majestic. It's normally found in the northern United States and Canada.

Mythologized by humans as an avatar of wisdom or symbol of doom, the owl in nature is a bird with secrets all its own.