A small owl has been making a big buzz among Grand Forks birding enthusiasts in recent days. Seeing a boreal owl in the Red River Valley is a rare occurrence, said Dave Lambeth, widely known as the ...

BAXTER-A rare, little feathered visitor appeared unexpectedly in Baxter on Tuesday morning. Judd Brink, MN Backyard Birds owner and guide, said he spent a weekend guiding in the Sax-Zim Bog, southwest ...

A Boreal Owl emerges from its roost to begin its evening of hunting activities in Northern Minnesota. The Boreal Owl is a tiny but fierce gnome of the deep boreal forest—the belt of cold, wet, largely ...

Prior to the 1970s, the boreal owl was known to breed from Alaska east across all of Canada, but not south of central British Columbia. Researchers then documented it in high elevation spruce and fir ...

DONNELLY FLATS — Po-po-po-po-po-po came the rapidly repeated low whistling. I recognized the sound immediately — the call of a northern boreal owl. These tiny Alaska owls begin calling now and their ...

Owls use their ears when they hunt. Sounds prey make – the footsteps of a vole on a forest floor, for instance -- are captured by ears that are asymmetrically placed on the bird's head. One ear is ...

Tiny boreal owls, down from Canada to find food, are drawing birders to Duluth in flocks. The influx, called an "irruption" by birders, occurs about every four years with boreal owls, but this has the ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) --It's not every day you spot a rare owl in northern Michigan, but for one 17-year-old bird watcher, it was his lucky day. Bird enthusiasts wait their whole lives to ...

Local birders Dan Mason and Paul Rice are spotting and photographing rare owls this winter, drawing excitement from Fargo-Moorhead’s birding community. Dan Mason, left, and Paul Rice look for owls at ...

Scientists at the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) University of Minnesota-Duluth are wrapping up two studies of hard-to-find animals in Minnesota -- the Canada lynx and the boreal owl. The ...