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 ...

Great horned owls are the first bird species in Ohio to begin nesting, often laying eggs by late January. Great horned owls are more commonly heard than seen, with their call being a series of deep ...

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 International Festival of Owls is being held March 6-8 in Houston, Minn. Given that our great state is home to a dozen owl species, it’s fitting that such a festival exists in the state.

December and January we are wakened just before dawn by the calls of a pair of Great Horned Owls. (Are you up…me too-me too?) The males are returning to the territories of their mates. (After the ...

Sometimes the sounds of the night tell a story of their own. It might be the soft howls of a hunting coyote letting others know where it is on a moonlit night. Maybe it’s the mellow chant of a common ...