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

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 to ...

A hundred or so sixth-graders is a cauldron of adolescent energy, the sort of latent power typically associated with tropical ...

acadicus) and the western screech owl (Megascops kennicottii ... nocturnal hunters (except in the far north when summer has no night or if chicks are unusually hungry), able to find prey in ...

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 ...

At night, great horned owls may screech or “scream.” This has given them a spookier reputation than most and happens for two reasons. One, an owlet is screaming because it’s hungry ...

Exploring the desert at night ranks up there as one of my most favorite adventures. Recently I was in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona searching for the elusive western screech owl.

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 ...