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 ...

Brandon Ponder was mowing when he noticed a ball of white fluff in the tall grass. He jumped off his tractor for a closer look and instantly recognized it as a baby owl. A big, wooden nest box hung in ...

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