The small 8-inch owls produce tremulous trills that can sound chilling in the darkness, as heard during the recent ...

Western scrub jays are not particularly friendly birds, but when they spot a fallen comrade, they hold screeching "funerals" for as long as a half-hour, a new study shows. Researcher Teresa Iglesias, ...

The sound was unmistakable and led me outdoors to face the thick woods across the road. In the advancing twilight the sound pierced the darkness again, and then again. The ghostly mournful wail, best ...

On the chilly morning of Dec. 5, Alex Patton headed into a coffee shop in Utica. On his way out, he glanced across the nearby stream and noticed the bird in the accompanying photo. Sharp-eyed Patton ...

What we lacked in numbers of the common owls, we made up for with encounters with some of the more sought after species.

It’s dusk, and you’re outside taking down the last of the Christmas decorations. Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a ping-pong ball that just got dropped. It starts out slow, accelerates in tempo ...

NFL privately admitted to erroneous reversal of catch by Panthers New video shows elderly couple trying to tackle Bondi gunman Princess Kate and Charlotte match in Christmas red at the King's ...

The western screech owl makes a call that doesn’t align with the bird’s name, sounding more like what local birder Nic Korte calls a “bouncing ball trill.” But while the little owl, which Korte says ...

It was a magical time in my backyard for two weeks this past summer. One August morning I walked out the back door just at dawn to meet a friend for a “beat the heat” walk, when suddenly two birds ...

Tom Ricardi, a raptor rehabilitator, rescued five birds on New Year's Day, including an Eastern screech owl found inside a ...