But small and medium sized owls, such as the screech owl and the barn owl, are literally better fits for nesting boxes. Rhode Island even has a volunteer-run nesting box program for barn owls.

I talked about the birds that nest in early spring. I talked about the screech owls and bluebirds that start searching for ...

Late winter is prime time to hear owls in Door County – and maybe even spot them – like the great horned, barred, saw-whet, ...

Visitors to the annual two-day event can learn about those unique birds of prey, see some up close and build a nest box for Eastern screech owls.

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 ...

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 ...