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

A 12-year-old Indian girl was beaten and then hanged by her mother for demanding she be sent to school. The girl was beaten unconscious with a rolling pin by her mother in a village in Jodhpur district in the western desert state of Rajasthan this month.

The Bush administration's plans for saving the northern spotted owl from extinction have flunked a peer review by scientists. Under a contract with the administration, the Society for Conservation Biology and the American Ornithologists' Union said...

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..

Animal lovers in Bendigo have opened their hearts to the seven-year-old black labrador deliberately impaled on a fence early this morning in the central Victorian town. She is in a critical condition, but is expected to survive.

A secret is perched silently in the eaves of a weather-beaten barn in Tippecanoe County. It has a white "monkey face," big, black eyes, and happens to hold a spot on the state's endangered species list. The barn owl -- nicknamed the "monkey-faced" owl...

The great horned owl is the night-flying equivalent of an eagle-a formidable hunter that swoops out of the dark to carry off animals as large as jack rabbits. Found on every continent except Australia, they live up to their name by regularly killing...

A sound such as I have never heard invades my consciousness. It is like a rhythmic wheeze, but not from a human being, and it is remarkably loud. A bit spooked, I peer through the blackness of my front yard, trying to pinpoint the noise.

Australia's military, caught on the hop by public outrage at plans to shoot thousands of kangaroos on its bases in Canberra, is considering moving them in air-conditioned comfort at a cost of over A$3,600 (1,500 pounds) each.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday to stop Weyerhaeuser Co. from logging in spotted owl habitat on four parcels of private land in Washington. "It really shows the Endangered Species Act still has some teeth in it," said Kenan Block