NO ONE knows more about tawny frogmouths than Gisela Kaplan. And she is smitten. "I have watched them copulate, build nests, brood and raise offspring from just metres away," says the Armidale scientist, who has spent thousands of hours, day and night...

A friendly young antelope found cavorting with a dog along a walking path was probably picked up illegally in Wyoming and may be too tame to return to the wild, wildlife authorities say. Those who brought the animal from Wyoming could face charges.

The barn owl is easily recognizable with its heart-shaped facial disc. Its eyes are dark. Its back is covered with honey-golden feathers, contrasting with a cinnamon-white chest and belly. At 20 inches, it is a tall owl, with a wingspan of 46 inches.

Welcome to my my diary. I try to keep regularly updated with news and photographs of the birds, dragonflies, butterflies, etc that I see whilst out and about. On the way back I took a detour to Thornbury to see if I could photograph one of the local owls.

It was raw, windy and dark on Whitefish Point, and Max Henschell was crouched in a wooden shack with a clipboard and pencil, scanning an empty beach and waiting for daybreak. There was nowhere else he'd rather be, the premier US location for owls.

Picture this: Songbirds and squirrels have fallen silent, bedding down for the night. Bats have not yet emerged. All is still except for the crunch of your boots on the dirt path. Suddenly, something above you calls out. Hoo! Hoo-oo-oo-oo! Hoo! Hoo!

Barn owl and tawny owl boxes, made by Fakenham High School students for Pensthorpe Nature Reserve, have already proved their worth. The six boxes, put up in March this year on the 500 acre reserve, near Fakenham, are all occupied and one of the boxes...

the barred owl's feathered cape spreads and relaxes it finds me below, turning it's head with the precision of a god...

The theft had seemed to be going so well. It had been pretty simple to whisk Addy the barn owl from her loving owners' home, and Jason Denton was thinking of the handsome profit he would make in cashing in on the craze for pet owls inspired by the Harry..

He looks like your standard alley cat, nothing to write home about. But officials at the Escondido Humane Society say he is a rare specimen, "a once-in-a-lifetime" cat like none they have ever seen before. They call him Phinny, for phenomenon.