T he eastern screech-owl has both a gray and a red morph. About a third of easterns end up with the rufous coloring. Look for heavy streaks below and darker bars on the back, small ear-like tufts ...

Eastern Screech Owls come in two phases: gray and red. ... A single Eastern Screech Owl can eat as many as 1,000 mice in a single year. Along with mammals, they will hunt insects and small birds, such ...

What is this organism? Where is it found? When am I likely to see it? And, most interesting and most difficult to answer, why ...

The birds that Levihn-Coon photographed were a mated pair near their nest, he said. One of the owls had a rare reddish-brown, ...

And you might even be surprised by a red face, as these owls come in many colors: red, grey, brown, tan, and charcoal. That little owl that comes down the chimney just might wear a red suit after all.

Eastern screech-owls stand about 9 inches, have yellow eyes, and have plumage that changes to gray or red-brown. They are the only small owl species in Minnesota with ear tufts, and are year-round ...

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 ...

Until that day, I had never viewed an Eastern Screech Owl in DuPage County, or even Illinois. The species is possibly even more common than Great Horned Owl in our region, but you’d never know it.

For the Eastern screech owl, the boxes should be placed on a live tree or a pole anywhere between 10 to 30 feet above the ground. It's recommended the box be placed under a tree limb at the ...

Sharp-eyed Patton had spotted a basking eastern screech owl at the entrance to its roost hole 30 feet up in a giant sycamore. I found myself in the area on Dec. 22 and stopped by on a sunny but ...