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

The western screech owl makes a call that doesn’t align with the bird’s name, sounding more like what local birder Nic Korte calls a “bouncing ball trill.” But while the little owl, which Korte says ...

Owls of the world come in all different sizes. The elf owl of the desert Southwest is so small it can fit into a teacup. The largest owl, the great gray, looms in the western forests including the ...

Is there a Screech-Owl in your neighborhood? Generally, we have Eastern Screech-Owls, but have reports of Western Screech-Owls in Western Montana. Eastern Screech-Owls are small, from 6 to 10 inches ...

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 ...

An owl was found trapped in an air duct March 26 in a Palo Alto, California, home. Palo Alto Animal Control A nocturnal creature with bright yellow eyes was found trapped in a home’s air duct in ...

On April 29, 2020, in my column “Owls in the House,” I talked about a small part of our experience with western screech-owls nesting in a nest box in our yard in the spring of 2020. On Jan. 23 of this ...

A Western screech owl was successfully rescued Thursday from behind the dashboard of an SUV parked in San Carlos, officials with the Peninsula Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...