She put up a nest box four years ago, and a female eastern screech-owl finally moved in. A month later, the owl’s mate showed up, and eventually Janet and her family watched three baby owls fledge.

Eastern screech owls are strictly nocturnal, which makes the sight of them during the day all that more special.

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 ...

Q: I would really like to see a screech owl, but I never have. What’s the best way to locate one of these owls? A: These small owls are described as “common” but are notoriously challenging ...

The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at the base, but gray-plumaged individuals are ...

acadicus) and the western screech owl (Megascops kennicottii). In our area, they are forest birds (although the screech owl also breeds in the dry southwest, and I will not discuss those ...

Ecologist Carl Safina got to know an injured baby screech owl well. Their relationship saved the owl’s life and gave Safina insider’s wisdom about these aerial hunters of the night.

I talked about the birds that nest in early spring. I talked about the screech owls and bluebirds that start searching for ...

After nearly four months of rehabilitation, an Eastern screech-owl is set to be released back into the wild this evening at Vic Thomas Park near Black Dog Salvage. The Southwest Virginia Wildlife ...

Three of the most common include the Great Horned Owl, the Barred Owl and the Eastern Screech-Owl. You can also find them on exhibit at the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village.

The Saturday of Owl-O-Rama opens with a nest box workshop for Eastern screech owls from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Participants will meet at the Ridges Workshop, 8288 County Q, to build nest boxes they ...