Follow the fortunes of a Scottish puffin colony across the 2019 breeding season, with Emily Knight & Becky Ripley. In Western culture, owls are associated with wisdom – from depictions in ...

2. In English folklore, owls have long been considered a harbinger of doom. An owl flying past a window, or heard overhead, was thought to warn of an impending death in the household. In ...

In other cultures, owls have been considered harbingers of doom or guardians of the underworld. Their presence in folklore, myths, and literature reflects their profound impact on human ...

The connection between owls and wisdom is deeply ingrained in mythology and folklore. In Greek mythology, the owl was the symbol of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Owls have been portrayed ...