But small and medium sized owls, such as the screech owl and the barn owl, are literally better fits for nesting boxes. Rhode Island even has a volunteer-run nesting box program for barn owls.

Normally only gray morph birds are found on the Great Plains and in southernmost Texas. The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl ...

a screech owl box. It was appropriate because the town of Essex seems to be full of screech owls. There are multiple boxes placed in yards around town, including in the yards of a couple of our ...