On her way home from work on a recent wintry night, Kathy Keane ran into a group of people quietly watching a pair of great horned owls perched on a tree in Lincoln Park. “I started hearing the ‘hoot, ...

Woo! Science is a column of science news and newsmakers in Worcester and the region. Got a science news idea? Email Margaret Smith at msmith@wickedlocal.com. Lucia Hackett of Grafton loves wildlife, ...

Big, handsome and unique, snowy owls rank among the most charismatic wildlife species in the world. As described by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the "regal snowy owl is one of the few birds that ...

On her way home from work on a recent wintry night, Kathy Keane ran into a group of people quietly watching a pair of great horned owls perched on a tree in Lincoln Park. "I started hearing the 'hoot, ...

To see a snowy owl in person is a memorable experience that lasts a lifetime. Adventurous birders love the thrill of discovering a snowy—and it takes only one glance to understand why this owl species ...

Fewer snowy owls might move south from their homes on the tundra of the Arctic into Pennsylvania and other northern states this winter, according to a snowy owl-tracking organization run in part ...

Whether it swims, crawls, runs or flies, it's not easy to estimate the population of a wildlife species. That challenge is even greater when the animal lives in some of the most remote regions of the ...