It was well north of 3 a.m. when the soft hooting of a distant great horned owl pulled me from the gentle arms of Morpheus, that mythological god of sleep and dreams. In the heat and stillness of the ...

With its long, earlike tufts, yellow eyes and deep hooting voice, the great horned owl is well-known in both North and South America — and a common resident in Minnesota's forests. Close to 240 ...

“Every night the owl with his wild monkey-face calls through the black branches, and the mice freeze and the rabbits shiver in the snowy fields— and then there is the long, deep trough of silence when ...