One morning, two of us on a burrowing owl treasure hunt followed someone else’s track around the top of an old dump at Hayward Regional Shoreline searching for the owl that had been reported there the ...

We have three small owls that share a lot of characteristics. They are the boreal owl (Aegolius funereus) of North America and Eurasia, known as Tengmalm’s owl in Eurasia, and in North America the ...

For years we have been driving from Gardiner to Cooke City, Montana, through Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, during the winter months. We love to look at the bison, elk and pronghorn and we usually can ...

At first glance, the small, rumpled ball of feathers in the middle of the road looked like a chunk of ice, but Sarah LeBlanc was convinced it was an owl. "I saw the eyes, and I said to my ...

I was backpacking in the White Mountains last week when a small bird flew up from the trail in front of us. The bird flew a short distance ahead and perched on a low branch, staring back at us. We ...

FLORENCE, AZ — Greg Clark gingerly handles a pair of cardboard carriers – each containing two small owls – as he joins a knot of sweating volunteers hammering stakes into the soil and shoveling dirt ...

Ecological and geological diversity just might be the biggest surprise for anyone who visits one of the five great North American deserts for the first time. Far from rolling miles of barren sand ...

A pair of burrowing owls made themselves at home aboard Royal Caribbean International's Allure of the Seas in February, joining a trans-Atlantic sailing to Spain. They'll return to the United States n ...

An international team of biologists has discovered a tiny new species of owl, called the Príncipe scops owl, living in a remote forest on an island off the west coast of Africa. In this Discovery ...

Big owls, little owls, white owls, dark owls, owls with "ears," awww-cute owls — there's plenty to see in the trees. If you're an owl fan (and who isn't?), then you'll be happy to know that it's ...

People have asked me about owls appearing in the houses of wood ducks. Eastern screech-owls are the ones that will roost and nest in wood duck and other larger wooden nest boxes, such as a flicker ...