A woman who creates life-like wooden sculptures of birds has won a national wood carving competition. Maggie Port won first ...

Not too many people know that most birds of prey have somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 feathers. But Al Jordan does. In fact, the Rochester, New York, bird carver can tell you specific numbers ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. There is a small stone owl carved into a corner of the oldest church in ...

Halloween is around the corner, and many people are preparing for the holiday by carving pumpkins to display outside or inside their homes. One owl was proud to sit and pose for a photo on top of a ...

Eric Douglas spent a week carving the owl from his elm tree stump.

EDWARDSVILLE — In much the same way that grisly car crashes draw drivers’ attention from the road, Brian Willis’s carved owls are drawing drivers’ attention from a stretch of Franklin Avenue. “Wally ...