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 ...

The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at the base, but gray-plumaged individuals are ...

Q: I would really like to see a screech owl, but I never have. What’s the best way to locate one of these owls? A: These small owls are described as “common” but are notoriously challenging ...

A screech-owl measures 8-1/2 inches long ... photographer David Shaw had a similar experience. “I watched as the pair of adult owls brought dead mice and voles, and occasional small birds ...

After they were able to catch it, they gave the owl the name, 'Bruce Screechstein.' Glass said it was a Red Morph Screech Owl and that it had hit one of the front windows of the building.

Recently I was in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona searching for the elusive western screech owl. After driving many miles deep into the dark desert, I had parked my truck near a dry creek ...

A hundred or so sixth-graders is a cauldron of adolescent energy, the sort of latent power typically associated with tropical ...