If the Trump administration gets its way, we won’t have much hope of learning more. The White House’s 2026 budget would end ...

Screech owls may have a more varied diet than the others; they are known to take fish from shallow water, pick arthropods from foliage, earthworms from soggy soil, and capture flying insects (e.g ...

Despite their name, Eastern Screech-Owls do not screech, but make sounds of whinnies and soft trills. Join the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center for Owl Prowl at 6 p.m. Feb. 21.

Screech owls are a small, stocky bird, about the size of a robin. They come in two colors: mottled gray, and mottled red, both of which provide excellent disguises in their chosen habitat of trees.

One of its small relatives, the western screech owl, weighs more. If the two species were standing side by side, however, the burrowing owl would be a full inch taller.

There are 13 owl species found in Colorado, including the great horned owl, spotted owl, boreal owl, western screech-owl and eastern screech-owl The northern hawk owl can detect — primarily by sight — ...

Few birds are as adaptive as screech owls, and they can be surprisingly common in urban landscapes. A 1981 survey of a 15-mile-diameter circle in Toledo found 112 owls, and I’m sure it missed some.

I found myself in the area on Dec. 22 and stopped by on a sunny but frosty 12 degrees Fahrenheit morning. There was the little owl, basking in the sun’s rays, oblivious to all. I was particularly ...

Have you ever been on an owl prowl? It’s a nighttime hike in the woods where you listen for the calls, shrieks and whistles of owls to help you get a glimpse of them. For this month’s Chirp ...

Western Screech Owls have a wide-ranging diet that includes everything from worms and crayfish to rats and bats. They will even take prey larger than themselves, such as cottontail rabbits or ...

Western screech owls, small enough to cup in your hands, are snack-sized for their bigger barred brethren. No one knows the population of the little owl before barred owls busted into their island ...