The Northern saw-whet owl is ... distinguish which is a male and female because you can’t really tell by looking at them.” They can also figure out how old the owl is using black light.

The object of our quest is the northern saw-whet owl, the smallest ... grounds to the south. The female saw-whet does all of the incubation and brooding, while the male does the hunting, according ...

The female probably chooses the nesting site, but doesn’t do much to modify it. She’ll lay her eggs in whatever debris is at the bottom of the cavity. Saw-whet owl nests start out fairly neat ...

They had a campfire going and had just finished setting up eight mist nets and two audio players, constantly broadcasting a recorded call of a male saw-whet owl at high volume. The call was to ...

Weighing little more than a robin, the northern saw-whet owl is a year ... To seal the deal, the male puts on a romantic courtship display by circling the female “about 20 times in flight ...

A lot of birders can do great bird calls. I’m not one of them. But even I can imitate a saw-whet owl. The male’s call is a simple series of repetitive whistle notes, sounding like “toot ...

Working my way through a willow thicket along the Teton River west of Rexburg, I came eye-to-eye with an adult Northern saw-whet ... the female setting on the eggs exclusively while the male ...

That’s how Melissa Boyle Acuti describes the northern saw-whet owl, the smallest owl species found in Maryland and one of the smallest in North America. They’re hardly bigger than a fist with ...

Owl Research Institute field technician and head bander Lauren Tate works to band a saw-whet owl at Flathead Lake ... The call playing on Tate’s speaker is a male territorial call used in ...