Both sexes of adult Western Screech-Owls (Otus kennicottii) sing in response to playback of conspecific song within their territories. Two primary songs are the bounce and double trill. Using ...

The western screech owl makes a call that doesn’t align with the bird’s name, sounding more like what local birder Nic Korte calls a “bouncing ball trill.” But while the little owl, which Korte says ...

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 ...

The past four or five weeks, David John of Skiatook has been trying to get a good photo of the red morph eastern screech-owl that has taken up residence in a wood duck box near his pond. Last year a ...

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 ...

Like any good German shepherd, my dog Bella sleeps with one eye and both ears open. And so, when she went ballistic at 3:30 a.m. a few nights ago, I let her go outside to bark out the alarm. But up ...

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