When we do our routine activities at night we sometimes meet the wild creatures of the dark hours. Most are mammals. Few of them are birds, but owls are the exception. Six species occur regularly ...

Western screech owls are one of the species that uses hoots ... taking turns with their calls. You can tell apart the ...

Becoming familiar with the night raptors in your neighborhood is worth exploring. Many owls are comfortable with human ...

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

Screech owls have two main calls, a higher call and a lower one. Sean calls a screech owl in and in no time at all, one returns the call. Then another from a different direction begins responding too.

The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at ... The male utters this sound when advertising a nest site, courting, and arriving at the nest with food. Both sexes sing each song ...

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...