The surviving owlet from the Wildflower Center nest is recovering with help from a surrogate great horned owl.

The wildflower center's favorite feathered friend, Athena, is back for another year of nesting — and you can now watch it all live. Athena is a female great horned owl who has laid eggs at the Lady ...

New mom, who hoots? Athena's surviving owlet gets to celebrate Mother's Day with a new mom.

A surrogate owl, Eddison, is helping to raise and care for the owl as it grows stronger.

In the span of little more than a week, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center released several major updates about Athena ...

AUSTIN, Texas — With bright yellow eyes and a wingspan of approximately four feet long, the Great Horned Owl is a common species of bird seen throughout the U.S. year-round. In Austin, one owl in ...

Last year, Athena followed a similar nesting schedule, arriving and laying two eggs in March. Both owlets fledged on May 25. Athena has successfully raised owlets for every season but one, when she ...

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s beloved resident owl Athena is back at her nest for the 13th year in a row, the center confirmed Friday. Athena laid her first egg on Thursday and is poised ...

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's beloved great horned owl, Athena, is back at her nesting spot—laying an egg Thursday morning. The center celebrated Athena's return for the 16th consecutive year.

"They enter the world covered in white natal down, with their eyes shut for approximately 9-11 days," Cornell Lab captioned a video depicting the owlet's egg tooth, a temporary hard projection on the ...