A rare owl has delighted bird watchers at the George Brown Botanic Gardens in Darwin with its recent return. Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Bess Price Minister said the Rufous Owl was ...

Others anthropomorphize: The rufous owl looks like Jimmy Durante. The underwings of a barn owl melt the bird into the clouds; a Eurasian eagle owl perches on a graveyard branch in the Black Forest ...

"The rufous owl is an added initiative we're trialling at the moment and it seems to be quite effective," Cr Greaney said. Flying fox colonies are established at the Palmetum and at Dan Gleeson ...

The elusive rufous owl has been spotted in Darwin's George Brown Botanic Gardens after a two-year absence. "It's like the lost prodigal son," George Brown Botanic Gardens acting director Bryan ...

Learn more about the eastern screech owl. ... Occurs in rufous and gray morphs as well as intermediate brownish plum­ages; plumages are alike, but the female is larger.

LOCAL bird experts have slammed Townsville City Council’s new policy on bats, claiming rufous owls will do little to reduce the number of flying foxes at The Palmetum.

I was particularly interested in seeing this “rufous” morph of the screech owl, as most of the birds in our region are of the gray morph (a morph is a color form).