It’s dusk, and you’re outside taking down the last of the Christmas decorations. Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a ping-pong ball that just got dropped. It starts out slow, accelerates in tempo ...

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 spot ...

The small 8-inch owls produce tremulous trills that can sound chilling in the darkness, as heard during the recent ...

The eastern screech-owl is a hole-nester that requires pre-existing holes of an adequate size. It cannot live where trees do not have a sufficient diameter to provide such holes. As the climate warms, ...

Eastern Screech Owls come in two phases: gray and red. Each has highly patterned feathers which give them fantastic camouflage. Last Sunday was the Chautauqua county Christmas Bird Count. At 8 in the ...

Observers say the western screech owl is down to just a few birds, mainly due to habitat loss and predation by its larger ...