Photo: Country Owls Better Suited to the Suburbs?



A trio of barred owls in Florida.

Although bird experts had long thought barred owls need old-growth forests to breed, an ongoing study has found that the nocturnal predators are faring well in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Photograph by Norbert Wu/Getty Images


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