A council has felled a dead horse chestnut tree and carved a barn owl from the stump. The tree at Hooks Corner in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, was planted in the 1980s by the village school's headmaster at ...

Barn owls, the birds most fretted over by the nation's conservationists, are at last responding to years of tender care and attention. Last year, a record number of chicks fledged, and the species, ...

Owls may make maps of their surroundings in their brains just like humans do. The fact that this ability has been seen in mammals and non-mammals could suggest it evolved hundreds of millions of years ...