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Video: Owls Have Heads Designed for Hearing
The silent flight of owls is pure beauty and grace in motion. In fact, in order to lessen the noise levels of airplanes, aeronautics designers are studying owl feathers for potential applications. But that’s
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Halloween Video: Barn Owls, Hunters in the Night
With their piercing stares, heads that turn almost 360 degrees and nocturnal lives, owls have become a universal symbol for spookiness. A hoot is often the only hint you’ll have that an owl is near, which
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: What Are You Looking At?
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a family of owls in Pennsylvania. Photographer William Friggle has been visiting
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Barred Owl
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a regular dinner-time visitor. Photographer John Ferris says Sidney, as this barred
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Halloween Video: the Silent Flight of Owls
Halloween and owls have a long and storied history with each other. It’s thought that the connection may have been forged around ancient Halloween bonfires. As nocturnal hunters of bats, owls would often be
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Flying Great Gray Owl
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose an owl in Canada. Photographer Tin Sang Chan snapped the moment a great gray
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Travel Tale: High Hopes in the Southwest Canyons
Say the words “American West,” and right away you mentally imagine vast, open plains, deep canyons and starting over. What is it about going West that has always meant hope in the American psyche,
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Video: Owl in Flight
Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. And we humans have been borrowing behaviors from and re-creating the physical characteristics of animals to solve some of our thorniest problems since before recorded
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