Dogs also have lots of small muscles in their ears, so they can point them very precisely to work out what direction a sound is coming from and how far away it is. Ah, the barn owl, another great ...

In this short film for primary schools Michaela Strachan visits an owl sanctuary with some primary school pupils to find out how a barn owl is ... and how their ears are adapted to enable them ...

Additionally, the barn owl is one of the most common owl species ... it collects sounds and then channels them toward each of the bird’s two ears, positioned at different heights on the skull.

The owls get their name from their short “ear tufts”. Read more ... “About the same size as the barn owl, but with long wings, the short-eared owl breeds in North England and Scotland ...

An unlikely symbol of cooperation, the barn owl is now getting global attention. Experts from 12 countries gathered in Greece last week to discuss an effort to help this remarkable predator that ...