Owls are nocturnal creatures that we rarely get to see up close, but there is one really good reason to attract them. This is ...

It’s dusk, and you’re outside taking down the last of the Christmas decorations. Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a ping-pong ball that just got dropped. It starts out slow, accelerates in tempo ...

The small 8-inch owls produce tremulous trills that can sound chilling in the darkness, as heard during the recent ...

In the winter, birds will likely come to your bird feeder in search of energy-dense food to stay warm. This addition will ...

I was backpacking in the White Mountains last week when a small bird flew up from the trail in front of us. The bird flew a short distance ahead and perched on a low branch, staring back at us. We ...

We have three small owls that share a lot of characteristics. They are the boreal owl (Aegolius funereus) of North America and Eurasia, known as Tengmalm’s owl in Eurasia, and in North America the ...

For years we have been driving from Gardiner to Cooke City, Montana, through Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, during the winter months. We love to look at the bison, elk and pronghorn and we usually can ...

One morning, two of us on a burrowing owl treasure hunt followed someone else’s track around the top of an old dump at Hayward Regional Shoreline searching for the owl that had been reported there the ...

People have asked me about owls appearing in the houses of wood ducks. Eastern screech-owls are the ones that will roost and nest in wood duck and other larger wooden nest boxes, such as a flicker ...

Observers say the western screech owl is down to just a few birds, mainly due to habitat loss and predation by its larger ...