The barn owl’s brilliant white underbelly is the key to its success as a nocturnal hunter, allowing the bird to camouflage ...

The barn owl’s brilliant white underbelly is the key to its success as a nocturnal hunter, allowing the bird to camouflage itself against the moon, according to new research.

Barn owls range from white to dark reddish-brown. In the moonlight, white ones hunt more successfully. Likely, they resemble ghosts scaring their prey to immobility. Skip to main content ...

But the barn owl has a pure white underbelly, which would seem to make it easy for prey to detect. It also has a round white ...

White Owl, Barn Owl Nicola Davies. Candlewick Press (MA), $16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-3364-6. The gentle quietness of the barn owl pervades the pages of this lovely story.

Barn owls may be more widespread than commonly believed. ... Bloem continues: "There was the person outside of Houston who emailed to say she had a dead white owl from outside of Houston.

The barn owl’s brilliant white underbelly is the key to its success as a nocturnal hunter, allowing the bird to camouflage itself against the moon, according to new research.

Studies have shown that white barn owls are more successful hunters than reddish-brown barn owls when there is a full moon (San José et al. 2019). This difference is unexpected, ...