Ms. Ackerman is the author of “What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds,” from which this essay is excerpted. When the first lucky observers spotted Flaco, the Eurasian ...

Meet Flaco, the “Free-Range Kid” … who happens to be an owl. At age 13, having spent almost his entire life in the Central Park Zoo where he was pampered, loved and educated (his home had a mural), ...

An enormous owl that has eluded researchers for around 150 years has finally been photographed in the wild in Ghana. The owl in question is a Shelley's Eagle Owl—an animal desperately sought after by ...

An owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in New York City has been spotted hunting on its own and acclimating to life in the wild while becoming a local celebrity around the park. Flaco, a ...

A bald eagle was spotted on July 29 sitting on a fence post at Elm Farm in Richmondville, Schoharie County. The following day, the eagle was again seen under a tree in a cow pasture, apparently unable ...

A stone quarry in Vikarabad, Telangana, halted operations for a month to protect a rock eagle owl and its eggs. Wildlife ...