Owls use their ears when they hunt. Sounds prey make – the footsteps of a vole on a forest floor, for instance -- are captured by ears that are asymmetrically placed on the bird's head. One ear ...

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.

Like other owls, great horneds cough up felty pills that contain the bones, fur and other parts of their meals. Scientists and schoolkids pick those pellets apart to see what owls have eaten.

Unnerving glimpses of the inside of an owl's head — in which a view of the bird's sizable bluish-white eyeball is visible through its ear hole — were captured in photos by writer and ...

Barn owls keep their acute sense of hearing into old age, scientists have discovered. Skip to content. ... "Birds can repair their ears like (humans) can repair a wound," he said.

Georg Klump of the University of Oldenburg, Germany, a researcher on the study, said owls keep their hearing into very old age. "Birds can repair their ears like (humans) can repair a wound," he said.

Barn owls keep their acute sense of hearing into old age, scientists have discovered. Previously, starlings have been found to have this ability, suggesting birds are protected from age-related ...