The great horned owl is the most common owl of the Americas, easily recognizable because of the feather tufts on its head. These “plumicorns” resemble horns or, to some, catlike ears.

In eastern wooded suburbs, this small, owl is often the most common avian ... Both species are found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, where the western is uncommon and the eastern is rare ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... locked in the sights of another creature: a Ural owl. He looked into her ebony eyes and softly fringed, heart-shaped ...

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...