The Friends of Beltzville State Park are hoping to lure some special visitors to the area — and they’d like to see them stay for a while. The group recently built and placed a barn owl nesting box in ...

Marion Clément with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies holds a Northern Saw-whet owl. The organization is launching the Urban Owl Nest Box program to encourage Front Range residents to install boxes for ...

Have you ever heard a strange whistle in the night sometimes? It may have sounded similar to a Great Horned Owl with its hoo-hoots, but where a Great Horned Owl's song echoes, this one is a bit ...

At this time of the year, you may be lucky enough to hear owls calling, especially the Eastern Screech Owl. If you spend time outdoors in the early evening (just as it’s getting dark out) or in the ...

Recently I heard the familiar “coo-oo, coo, coo” of a Mourning Dove and it got me thinking about how I used to believe it was an owl hooting (I always heard it as a “hoo” and not a “coo”). Although ...

Barn owls, like the one pictured here, do not hoot, instead their call is an ear-piercing shriek. Recently I heard the familiar “coo-oo, coo, coo” of a Mourning Dove and it got me thinking about how I ...

Menlo School senior Eliza Low with a barn owl nesting box she built. Courtesy Marianne Plunder. Local hikers in Portola Valley may have recently spotted wooden boxes nailed in the trees. These are ...

Typically, saving baby owls isn't a job responsibility for FedEx drivers, but that didn't stop driver Justin Beiler from saving one's life anyway. Beiler, of Akron Borough, was delivering packages in ...

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 ...

Scientists have tagged birds for more than 100 years. That preservation program might be defunded. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript ...