The Almanack shares a compilation of its five best owl feature stories over the years, pulled from the archives.

Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

Blood-curdling sounds will startle some sleeping Corridor humans awake this winter. The noise may be terrifying but it is only an owl calling from a treetop. Two common large owl species live in urban ...

Many people enjoy birding, looking for wild birds that either nest in our area or migrate through in spring and fall. For ...

The old tulip tree in my backyard is one of many, but this one has a knothole, maybe four inches in diameter and twenty feet up the trunk. One day the knothole seemed to attract a lot of attention. A ...