It’s March. This is when I find myself torn between clinging to winter and beginning to look for signs of spring, for the forest to begin to shake off its winter torpor. A time to look for breeding ...

Great horned owls are the first bird species in Ohio to begin nesting, often laying eggs by late January. Great horned owls are more commonly heard than seen, with their call being a series of deep ...

And by hunt, I mean intentionally head out at twilight to score a sighting of a gorgeous creature, not to claim them with my bow and arrow. I’m no Van Helsing. Mostly what I find in my journeys are ...

There are at least 250 species of owls in the world, but only a few are more commonly seen (and heard) in Northern California and across the United States. The most common owls you’ll encounter in ...

Late February is the season of the great-horned owl. The owl is resident here, present in every month, but in February, it begins the work of its life, raising the next generation. It may seem early ...

December and January we are wakened just before dawn by the calls of a pair of Great Horned Owls. (Are you up…me too-me too?) The males are returning to the territories of their mates. (After the ...

Uhu, a Eurasian eagle-owl at the International Owl Center in Houston, Minn., rests its head on the shoulder of Karla Bloem, the center's director. --or on a quiet walk in the woods. I'm talking about ...

The puzzle of a bird’s behavior, who does what, when and why, is often filled with intrigue akin to what you'd find in a mystery novel. Like on a late night last week: An owl hooted, close to the ...

Athena, the great horned owl and the most famous hoot owl in Texas, has hatched eggs at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin. And it will all be captured live on camera for the 14th year.

Last October, we began counting birds that crossed the area that was proposed as a route for high-voltage power lines through Little Swamp Sanctuary. Before this count, we realized that this was a ...