If you've never heard of the Siau scops-owl, there's a good reason why -- and it's not because your knowledge of birds isn't quite up to scratch. Nobody has seen the elusive owl since 1866, and it's ...

As it turns out, that peep was central to the owl’s discovery and classification as a unique species. Martim Melo, the new study’s lead researcher and a evolutionary biologist at the University of ...

A group of birdwatchers in southern India has recorded something never seen before near Karnataka's Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary: a rare Indian scops owl, blending so seamlessly into the landscape that ...

(THE CONVERSATION) An international team of biologists has discovered a tiny new species of owl, called the Príncipe scops owl, living in a remote forest on an island off the west coast of Africa. In ...

Bird diets provide a real treasure for research into the distribution and conservation of their prey, such as overlooked and rare bush-cricket species, point out scientists after studying the diet of ...

Based on papers presented at the Owls 2000 conference held in Canberra, Australia. Introduction to Australian owls / David Hollands -- Population limitation in Holarctic owls / Ian Newton -- Occupancy ...

To Melo, one of the most fascinating things about the bird is how long it was able to hide from researchers. His and his colleagues’ genetic analysis uncovered that, of all the scops owl species ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel Merino, The Conversation (THE CONVERSATION) An international team of biologists ...