Among the smallest owl species in North America, the saw-whet is the size of a smartphone topped with a pingpong ball. With a ...

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 ...

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 draw in ...

Interested females respond by emitting a softer, high-pitch call punctuated with whistles ... Not long ago, little was known about the saw-whet owl’s courting behaviors, much less where in ...

They have facial discs of specialized feathers that help collect sounds and direct them to ... especially during the nesting season. A saw-whet owl stands quietly, just observing.

Humans are their biggest problem…and students Owls have superpowers. They hunt like wolves of the sky. Their ears are Ferraris of sound sensitivity. Their brain does sophisticated math to pinpoint ...

During mating season, the male northern saw-whet owl advertises himself ... Behavioural ecologists find that where the owl population is denser, calls are more distinguished and distinguishable.

Easter is celebrated in the springtime for what seems an obvious reason, as dormant plants are beginning to awaken and the ...

"I think we've seen just about every native owl to northern Ontario this year," she said ... We've had several boreal owls, which is not something we admit every year, and we have a little saw-whet." ...