I’ve never seen a screech owl before, but for sure have I heard them. Despite the name, screech owls do not actually “screech. Even when attacked, they are more likely to make a sharp, clacking noise ...

There are 140 species of owls worldwide in the owl family called Strigidae, 18 of which reside in North America, including barred, long-eared, short-eared, great horned, screech, saw whet and snowy — ...

If you've never heard a barn owl screech, you may not realize just how loud they can be. In a room full of volunteers and conservation officials, the fledglings inside a Bois D'Arc Conservation Area ...

Owls by their very nature of being nocturnal are hard to find and see. During the breeding season, they can be heard calling, but that is mostly at night, when the temperatures in February are often ...

In an old abandoned house we hear spooky, eerie, ghostlike wailing - haunting voices that move through walls and suddenly emerge from a different room. But wait! Halloween has come and gone, or are ...

Between being primarily nocturnal and very well camouflaged, owls are not often seen. Reliable estimates of populations of most species don’t exist. For some of the especially secretive species, their ...

Eastern screech-owl is common everywhere except in the higher elevations ... When Susan told me what it was, I thought she was joking!” Trying to bring back barn owls to Cades Cove Back in the late ...

When the cloak of night sweeps across the earth, and the moon stretches our shadows, careful little creatures begin scanning the skies for predators that stalk on silent wings — the owls. Four species ...

While participating in the White River Christmas Bird Count near St. Charles on Jan. 5, I was reminded just how exciting it is to see an owl. My son Zach and friends Lewis and Shannon Peeler of ...

A nest of barn owls was found in La Crosse recently after a young bird fell from a dead tree in a resident's backyard. After further inspection — including putting a camera scope inside the dead tree ...