The barn owl’s brilliant white underbelly is the key to its success as a nocturnal hunter, allowing the bird to camouflage ...

Negro and his team’s latest research suggests instead that the barn owl’s brilliant white plumage is in fact a form of nocturnal camouflage or counter-illumination that gives the hunter an ...

Barn owls’ white plumage helps them blend with moonlight, making them nearly invisible to prey during hunting.

But the barn owl has a pure white underbelly, which would seem to make it easy for prey to detect. It also has a round white face. The team wondered if the unique coloring helps the owl to blend ...

The barn owl has been looked after by Secret World Wildlife Rescue A wildlife rescue charity has called a barn owl "very lucky" after it was found ensnared to a tree by a kite line. Secret World ...

Several species of owls call the Cape home. They breed in winter and early spring. Adding an owl box to your yard could make ...

A County Down farmer is celebrating the arrival of four new barn owl chicks after 10 years of conservation work on his land to increase numbers. There are currently fewer than 30 breeding pairs of ...