Of all the creative ways to strike up a gobble, the owl hoot is a tried-and-true classic. But in all the times you’ve let “who cooks for you” rip, have you ever stopped to wonder why turkeys often ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

CHAMPAIGN -- “Birds of omen, dark and foul,” wrote Sir Walter Scott about owls, once considered harbingers of doom, death, and destruction. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches and an ...

Hostile owl hoots make robins eat less at night, reveals new research. The sound of tawny owls makes the red-breasted birds ...

It’s now 2026, and the New Year arrived cold and windy. No doubt the cold and icy patches will be around for a long time. It was really cold last Sunday, when the annual Bethlehem/Easton Christmas ...

It’s a sound that adds to the mystery of a cold winter night – a call that makes the night a little darker and the woods a bit wilder. When I heard the great horned owl call last week from a distant ...

In the same way that I like to look for signs of spring, now, in the fall, I enjoy the countdown to winter. I have a short-term goal as well — the countdown to Halloween. How many "ghoulish" things in ...

“We call them a tree cancer — when there’s an odd branch sticking up or a bump out on a trunk, that’s usually an owl.” This is also the time to remind humans with their cameras to curb their curiosity ...

We need to have some empathy for some of today’s wildlife biologists in Oregon and Washington. Most wildlifers chose their profession because of a love of wild places and wild things. I know that was ...

What I call the Owl Relativity Theory could add solidity to the idea that barn owls have much wider distribution in Minnesota than ever imagined. These could be itinerant barn owls, but barn owls ...