Great horned owls are common over much of Ohio and are sometimes found in urban and suburban areas. I once saw the ghostly shape of an owl float across the intersection of High Street and 17th ...

One reason great horned owls may range so far is that they will eat anything they can grab. A few years ago, a teenage neighbor of ours shoved a great horned owl off his 7-pound dog in the driveway.

Reader Todd Mackinaw recently admired how the great horned owl can thrive from the Brooks Range in Alaska all the way to Uruguay in South America. The knee-high owl, known for its “plumicorns ...