It’s difficult to ID Eastern and Western screech-owl species—location is your best bet. Hear their call and learn about their ...

On the chilly morning of Dec. 5, Alex Patton headed into a coffee shop in Utica. On his way out, he glanced across the nearby stream and noticed the bird in the accompanying photo. Sharp-eyed Patton ...

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 ...

“The Eastern Screech Owl: Life History, Ecology, and Behavior in the Suburbs and Countryside” by Frederick R. Gehlbach, 1994, Texas A&M University Press, $24.95, softbound, 302 pages: This book ...

The birds that Levihn-Coon photographed were a mated pair near their nest, he said. One of the owls had a rare reddish-brown, or rufous, coloration. Typically, Eastern Screech Owls in Central Texas ...

And frights the School-boy from his play. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Precision formations of Canada geese and ragged skeins of snow geese riding the turbulence of a northern gale skedaddled across ...