We have a new favorite animal. His name is Bobo and he’s beyond cute. The screech owl was recently rescued from a cut tree by The Reptile Zoo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And now people are praising ...
Winter is peak owl romance: Eastern screech owls court and pair-bond in February, making winter the best time to hear and spot them. Soft trills, not loud hoots: Unlike larger owls, screech owls ...
You've built the nesting box, kept a few dead trees standing, and you have plenty of owl food scurrying about. So where are ...
Everyone loves owls — but how often do you get to see one up close? Perhaps you’ve glimpsed the shadowy form of a great-horned owl in your headlights on a back road, scanned a frozen saltmarsh hoping ...
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, ...
This was no mystery, but police officers in upstate New York had a “whoooo-dunit” on their hands last week. Officers in Syracuse rescued an injured Eastern screech owl in the snowy backyard of a ...
Raptor specialist Jo Santiago, left, and raptor rescue volunteer Connor Sneberger prepare to release a newly healthy screech owl along Back Road in Randolph County. (Photo courtesy of Keri Lewis) MILL ...
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 ...
Humans aren’t the only ones with romance on their minds in February. This is the month when many species of owls, including the eastern screech owl, embark on their pair-bonding and courtship rituals.