Sometimes you know the answer before you ask the question. “Count me in,” was the enthusiastic and expected reply from my long-time friend Jim Hoyson when asked if he was interested in going on a road ...

Shaver’s Creek welcomed Pip, the first U.S.-bred Northern Hawk Owl for education. Pip’s arrival launches new programs and offers public meet-and-greet sessions. Pip offers rare research opportunity on ...

I had just returned from a trip to see an evening grosbeak that had been visiting a feeder for a few weeks in the eastern part of the state. The continuous onslaught of Alberta clippers every few days ...

Pip, a Northern Hawk Owl chick, takes a look around the room as he learns how to fly at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center on Thursday, July 31, 2025. Pip died on Sunday, Shaver’s Creek announced.

Owls, like most creatures, “sometimes just hit the road and go,” said raptor expert Erik Stauber, a retired wildlife veterinary professor from Washington State University. So when he spotted an odd ...

Before I tell you about my local owl viewing, let me share with you the Minnesota Ornithologists Union's web report on the current owl influx. As of Jan. 15 more than 1,700 great grays, 300 northern ...

A Our state is rich in owls. In early April, you have a chance of seeing 10 species of owls in Minnesota. Long-eared, short-eared, Northern saw-whet, snowy, great horned, great gray, barred, boreal, ...

Northland birding guide Judd Brink, in center standing on the grass, uses binoculars to watch an uncommon northern hawk owl in the Sax-Zim Bog north of Duluth on Monday as two of his birding clients ...

HORICON — The Horicon Marsh Bird Club welcomes Hannah Toutonghi of the University of Minnesota Duluth, Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, to its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium at the ...

Q: I’m a big owl fan and have seen several kinds, especially the great horned owl. But I wonder: Why I don’t ever see short-eared owls? A: These tawny owls with their dramatically outlined eyes spend ...

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