Checking out the owl sketches at Sunday’s Selection Reception. Next, the chosen artists will get to work on their owls and then they will be displayed around Coxsackie and New Baltimore this summer ...

For centuries, owls have been featured in children’s books and folk tales capturing imaginations the world over. With their haunting calls and charismatic faces, these birds remain popular but ...

Scanning astronomical sketches can distort stellar magnitudes, causing faint stars to appear brighter and bright stars to appear dimmer. The author utilized Adobe Photoshop's "Astronomy Tools Actions ...

Back in the early yo dawg/me gusta era of internet memes, around 2010, some larrikin made an image ridiculing how-to-draw books. "How to draw an owl," it read. "First, draw some circles. Next, draw ...

Research at the Global Owl Project’s human-made burrowing owl network in eastern Oregon has revealed some fascinating habits of the tiny raptors. Here are five things that project Director David ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. The barred owl (Strix varia) is ...

Once again the Blackstone Library packed them in. This time it was for a talk last month by artist, writer and naturalist David Sibley, whose second edition of The Sibley Guide to Birds has just been ...