Look for owls near your home, and see if you can identify your local owls. Everything about an owl’s body makes it the ideal bird for night living. An owl has the best night vision of any animal, and its hearing is amazing, too. Hearing: Did you know that an owl can hear a mouse stepping on a twig from 75 feet (23 meters) away?

Hoot hoot, who-o-o-o wants to hold a mysterious owl?! Fly into the extraordinary world of owls during a National Aviary Owl Encounter with Apollo, Luna, or Cedar! Meet one of our mystifying, adorable owl Animal Ambassadors!

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is home to a pair of burrowing owls in an off-view breeding area. However, you can observe these fascinating birds on this live cam—which provides views above ground, as well inside the birds' underground burrow, …

Each year, we partner with Explore.org, an arm of the Annenberg Foundation, to share some of our local wildlife and the iconic landscape of Northwest Montana's Mission Valley through Live Cams. The cameras are active and streaming live online 24/7. By day, you can view the scene in color - by night, infrared.

The owls at Zoo Atlanta are very productive and produce chicks nearly every year; their offspring are shared with accredited zoos across the country. The milky eagle owls are easy to find and can be seen nearly anytime except on our coldest days, when they may be indoors.

The burrowing owl has striking eyebrows, big bright eyes, and long legs. They are about the size of a robin but with a bit more bulk, with a large round head and short tail. Their coloring ranges from dark to sandy brown, with light brown to white spots, and they have a lighter belly.

Barred owls are spreading west in the United States, leading to competition with the endangered spotted owl. Their eyes are brown or black, unlike the yellow of many other owls.

The Spectacled Owl is typically the largest and most dominant owl in its range, with the larger Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) rarely venturing into true rainforest habitats. It preys principally on a wide array of mammals, eating almost anything that is nocturnally active.

Eastern screech owls are sit-and-wait hunters that swoop down silently on their next meal from low-lying branches. They usually hunt in the dim light of dusk and dawn or at night. They eat many kinds of prey, ranging from insects and earthworms to songbirds and small rodents.

Snowy owls are a diurnal owl species that live in cold, snowy habitats. Older males may be fully white, while females tend to be larger and have black or brown specks on their wings and back. These owls are some of the largest owls in the world, weighing between 3.5 and 6.5 pounds and standing 27 inches tall.