Barred owl adults may stand over two feet tall with a wingspan reach of over four feet. With feathers designed for silent flight, it can streak suddenly and without warning from the inky recesses ...

The great horned owl is just that — great and great-horned. Its ear tufts, which are actually feathers, ... slightly longer than the barred owl, but with a greater wingspan, ...

Great horned owls, being a tad bit larger, will prey upon the eggs and young of the barred owl. Spring is a busy time for these large predator birds. Both lay their eggs in March and hatch them in ...

Great horned owls do not grab your attention, they seize it. This one was gorgeous, appearing tawny in low sunlight, belly feathers finely barred, ear tufts tilted back slightly by the softest of ...

The call of the great horned owl is a five- or six-note call, consisting of deep, resounding hoots in the pattern “hoot hoot-hoot hoot hoot." Their call is, to me, the quintessential hoot of an owl.

Each is large, but while the barred owl appears similar in size, it is not as powerful, weighing only 1 to 2 pounds with smaller talons. It is mostly feathers. Great horned owls weigh 3 to 4 ...

Clarke imped 16 birds in September, including great horned and barred owls, broad-winged hawks, merlins, a peregrine falcon, Cooper's hawks, a kestrel and a red-tailed hawk.

The barred owl, like the snowy owl and, for all visual purposes, the short-eared owl, has no ear tufts — just a big, round face and, unlike all other local owls, dark brown eyes. All others have ...

What better way to take the cure for cabin fever than get outside and listen to hooting owls on a cold winter night? That’s what drew us last weekend to Jerry Hightower’s “Owl Prowl” at ...