Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

DEAR JOAN: A few months ago, we built a nest box for a screech owl as we had heard some in our area. Now, several months later, after mounting the box in a tree and filling it with wood shavings, ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2023. Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to ...

I describe an Eastern Screech-owl (Megascops asio) hatching three Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) eggs in a suburban nest box. Wood Duck(s) removed all five eggs of a completed screech-owl clutch, the earliest ...

And I know the owl box isn't the problem because identical boxes have successfully attracted nesting birds to the back yards of several readers. The most recent excited announcement arrived last week ...

Wood ducks are known to lay their eggs in the nests of other birds — an act known as brood parasitism Earlier this month, wildlife artist and photographer Laurie Wolf peeped some exciting activity in ...

Eastern Screech-Owls are permanent residents here, found in city, town, and suburb. Like most owls, they are active at night, commonly present but uncommonly seen. A friend has a screech-owl taking ...

LIBERTY — After taking a substantial cut from the Sullivan County budget, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County put out an emergency appeal to its supporters. Many people came forward with ...

Volunteers from the Capitol Area Ducks Unlimited Chapter and employee-volunteers from Exelon found eastern screech owls occupying several wood duck boxes on Three ...

Ed Smith, of Sherrill, came upon this screech owl recently in one of his wood duck boxes and took this interesting photo. He wrote: "Never know what you’ll find when doing a pre-nesting season clean ...

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 ...

Three screech-owls are found in North America: eastern, western and whiskered. But about 22 screech-owl species are found in the world, all in the Americas. Estimated breeding populations of ...