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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a cold winter’s night and my beautiful wife Susan and I were watching movies. There was a fire crackling in the wood stove, we were enjoying good food and drink and we were both all snoodled up ...