It’s difficult to ID Eastern and Western screech-owl species—location is your best bet. Hear their call and learn about their ...

Sharp-eyed Patton had spotted a basking eastern screech owl at the entrance ... which allow the owl’s brain to better triangulate on the sound’s location. Proportionately enormous eyes contain ...

The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at ... The male utters this sound when advertising a nest site, courting, and arriving at the nest with food. Both sexes sing each song ...

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

When we do our routine activities at night we sometimes meet the wild creatures of the dark hours. Most are mammals. Few of them are birds, but owls are the exception. Six species occur regularly ...

The data may tell. However, the process to get it is interesting. We drive between different checkpoints with about 90 for barred owls and 100 for eastern screech owls. At each of these, we blare owl ...