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 ...

Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

For the past month or so, when I wake up in the wee hours of the night, I have been hearing great horned owls busily hooting from the forest behind my house. This goes counter to what I thought about ...

For the past month or so, when I wake up in the wee hours of the night, I have been hearing great horned owls busily hooting from the forest behind my house. This goes counter to what I thought about ...

It’s difficult to ID Eastern and Western screech-owl species—location is your best bet. Hear their call and learn about their ...

A sudden intake of breath, a moment of stunned attention. This is how most of us react when we encounter a great horned owl. If the owl is looking at us, those big yellow eyes seem to bore right into ...

They start at the 11th hour of the night, or in the wee hours of the morning, with a basso song that reverberates through the bedroom window. “Who’s-awake? Me-too,” sounds the call. A pair of great ...

At day’s end I scribble down things I have seen. I write only of sights I might go a month before seeing again, or a year, or a lifetime perhaps. A lifetime? Indeed. Take the owl in the tree. The ...

DEAR JOAN: We have lived in a quiet residential neighborhood very near downtown for 42 years. Yesterday, a murder of crows was making a terrible racket in our back garden. When we investigated there ...