In an old abandoned house we hear spooky, eerie, ghostlike wailing - haunting voices that move through walls and suddenly emerge from a different room. But wait! Halloween has come and gone, or are ...

The eastern screech-owl is a hole-nester that requires pre-existing holes of an adequate size. It cannot live where trees do not have a sufficient diameter to provide such holes. As the climate warms, ...

People have asked me about owls appearing in the houses of wood ducks. Eastern screech-owls are the ones that will roost and nest in wood duck and other larger wooden nest boxes, such as a flicker ...

Q: I would really like to see a screech owl, but I never have. What’s the best way to locate one of these owls? A: These small owls are described as “common” but are notoriously challenging to spot ...

A small owl was rescued from a home in West Hartford last week. On Jan. 18, police, an animal control officer and a local wildlife rehabilitation center rescued a screech owl that had made his way ...

But researchers also suspect that screech owl is being muscled out by a larger, more aggressive owl species that’s a newcomer to the region. Barred owls, native to the eastern United States, have ...