DEAR JOAN: We live in an urban area of San Jose, and sometimes at night hear the hooting of an owl of some sort. Recently we heard that repeated hooting, but interspersed with a call that I can only ...

Oregon is owl country. Spend enough time in an old-growth forest or out on a high desert trail and you’ll eventually hear one: the deep, sonorous hoot of a great horned owl, or the barred owl’s ...

Last month, I observed a bird on my property that had never been seen or heard there before. As I was getting ready for bed, I heard an owl calling from the forest in my yard. I hear owls frequently ...

If you have day-hiked in the Smokies, you have undoubtedly been monitored, unawares, from a tree cavity. The unseen watcher? A winged super-predator resting with one eye open, waiting for dusk or ...