They are united in saving an important predator: the barn owl. The moon-faced, shoebox-sized owl is a ruthless pest controller that helps farmers by protecting crops from rodents and other nuisances.

Payne, the first researcher to document what makes barn owls such successful nighttime hunters. (It was Payne who discovered that whales serenade each other ... used to help meet the local ...

Winter poses a stiff challenge for birds that remain at our latitude through the season, and the vagaries of winter weather ...

Here we show that barn owls perceive subjective contours defined ... one square and one triangle defined by subjective contours appeared in each block of twenty trials. Subjective figures were ...