With their big bright eyes and terse-looking ear tufts, great horned owls somehow manage to be both our symbol for knowledge and the archetypal owl for storybooks. In real life, they are no less formidable or fascinating, and the exciting thing is that they are common enough, even in suburbs and cities, that you actually have a pretty good chance of eventually seeing—or at least hearing—one. Read on to learn their preferences for digs, favorite … [Read more...]