Discover the amazing types of owls in North America. The western screech-owl sports a gray look, but some birds are more brown. Essentially identical to the eastern’s gray morph, though westerns ...

A hundred or so sixth-graders is a cauldron of adolescent energy, the sort of latent power typically associated with tropical ...

acadicus) and the western screech owl (Megascops kennicottii). In our area, they are forest birds (although the screech owl also breeds in the dry southwest, and I will not discuss those ...

Recently I was in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona searching for the elusive western screech owl. After driving many miles deep into the dark desert, I had parked my truck near a dry creek ...

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 ...

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