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 ...

Unlike the large, familiar great-horned owl, the western screech owl is small and not often seen. Where the great-horned stands about 20 inches tall and weighs as much as a bottle of wine, the screech ...

The results of the 2014 Grand Valley Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count may have cemented the Mesa County's name in the "Ripley's Believe It or Not" of birding. According to avid birder and Daily ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A Western Screech Owl narrowly escaped serious injury after getting caught in a snap trap. The Tucson Wildlife Center team successfully removed the trap and radiographs showed ...

During a recent stay in the mountains of Big Bend National Park, my wife, Kathy, and I drove to the historic desert oasis called Dugout Wells one evening. We needed to get there before nightfall to ...

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 ...

I really wish I wasn’t writing this. But we lost our owls. After our little female western screech-owl laid four eggs, they all hatched, and the male brought more food than ever to the nest box, it ...

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 ...