There’s a ghostly nocturnal raptor with a heart-shaped face in Indiana keeping the state’s meadows and grasslands safe from rodent infestations. Barn owls are normally found in large swaths of these ...

Lexie Echols received an urgent call from her sister-in-law in late May. Driving through green pastures southeast of Corvallis, something had caught her attention. A barn owl was trapped on a barbed ...