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.

A nesting box isn't right for every owl. Great horned owls prefer trees because their nests are so big. Small and medium sized owls, such as the screech owl and the barn owl, are better fits for ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. During the day, a roosting screech owl typically holes up in a tree cavity or nest box. Sometimes they’ll sit tight against a tree trunk, and their ...

a screech owl box. It was appropriate because the town of Essex seems to be full of screech owls. There are multiple boxes placed in yards around town, including in the yards of a couple of our ...

It was cold and windy the morning I wrote this column. Temperatures were forecast to stay in the 30s, down from 60s and rain the day before. But it is December when the weather goes back and forth ...

When we do our routine activities at night we sometimes meet the wild creatures of the dark hours. Most are mammals. Few of them are birds, but owls are the exception. Six species occur regularly ...

Eastern screech owl, Northern saw-whet owl, barred owl, barn owl, long-eared owl, and short-eared Owl. A nesting box isn't right for every owl. According to the nonprofit the Owl Research Center ...

Boxes for Eastern screech owls need to be much smaller than the barred owl, for example. Perhaps unsurprisingly, where these boxes are placed — whether in the center of a wood lot or along the e ...