Though common and widespread, it is rarely seen. More often it is heard. I’m speaking of the Western Screech Owl, the Coachella Valley’s smallest owl. Standing only eight inches tall and weighing in ...

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 ...

Owls of the world come in all different sizes. The elf owl of the desert Southwest is so small it can fit into a teacup. The largest owl, the great gray, looms in the western forests including the ...

After five days trapped in a Kentfield chimney and some tender loving care at Wildcare in San Rafael, a rescued western screech owl was released back into the natural world on Friday evening, flying ...

There’s a bird box located along the Missouri River that Beth Hill always looks at when she passes. Usually, she sees a small, dark hole that serves as the entrance to the man-made nest, but there was ...

Most of the time nocturnal owls go unseen, their nighttime hoots are often the only indication of their presence. Such is true for our largest and most common owl, the great horned owl. Near the other ...

Owls by their very nature of being nocturnal are hard to find and see. During the breeding season, they can be heard calling, but that is mostly at night, when the temperatures in February are often ...

During a recent stay in the mountains of Big Bend National Park, my wife, Kathy, and I drove to the historic desert oasis called Dugout Wells one evening. We needed to get there before nightfall to ...

DEAR JOAN: On Oct. 28, we discovered that a Western screech owl was visiting our backyard. I’ve heard them once or twice in the forest, but never seen one. Since then, we’ve seen this small owl — ...

It’s not unusual for Tasmyn Raleigh’s Ring doorbell camera to capture the occasional odd visitor — a spider making her web in the doorway or a neighborhood cat out for a stroll. But for the last few ...

A Western screech owl was successfully rescued Thursday from behind the dashboard of an SUV parked in San Carlos, officials with the Peninsula Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...

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 ...