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 ...

For Nic Korte, the Christmas Bird Count is an annual ritual. Every year around the Grand Valley during the Christmas season, it’s time to count the number of western screeching owls. Korte, who works ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...