The great horned owl is the largest of the three common Ohio breeding owls (the others being the eastern screech and barred owls). Females are larger than males, and a big specimen might weigh 3.5 ...

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 ...

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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.

A Wisconsin filmmaker has captured rare footage showing a great horned owl absorbing a direct hit to the face by a marauding crow, and standing its ground during a prolonged “crow mob assault ...