Natural predators come in all sizes, shapes and classes. There are generalists that eat whatever they can get a hold of to specialists that just hunt and consume certain species in a particular way.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard.

Because one S.C. Department of Natural Resources employee decided to invest his time and talent, barn owls on the South Carolina coast are thriving and contributing to the knowledge of another species ...

WATSONVILLE — The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...

Dear Gary: After seeing and hearing barn owls in our backyard last summer and fall, we decided to put up a barn owl nest box. It is on a pine tree trunk, approximately 20 feet above the ground.

Backyard bird-watchers looking for Santa Claus may have better luck watching December night skies for the magnificent barn owl. These beautiful white ghosts of the night silently hunt in darkness and ...

A barn owl. Photo by Peter K. Burian, courtesy of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Press release from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission: The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is asking the ...

Barn owls need at least 50 acres to support meadow voles, their main food supply,” he said. This spring his efforts paid off. One of his boxes, at a farm near New Berlin, finally was adopted by barn ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A pair of barn owls have made their home in a nest box at the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has a live stream that looks into ...

We installed a barn owl nest box in a backyard tree. We want to attract owls so they will eat rodents that are active at night. But fox squirrels moved into the owl nest box and are using it for their ...