But small and medium sized owls, such as the screech owl and the barn owl, are literally better fits for nesting boxes. Rhode Island even has a volunteer-run nesting box program for barn owls.

Jim Abrams offers insight on one of his favorite jobs as a game protector for the Division of Wildlife: placing and ...

Visitors to the annual two-day event can learn about those unique birds of prey, see some up close and build a nest box for ...

Manteca has a gopher problem. And no one — except perhaps the Manteca Unified School District and almond growers — faces as big a challenge in eradicating the rodents than the City of Manteca.

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

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at the base, but gray-plumaged individuals are ...

Students at Carihi Secondary School have been hard at work constructing nest boxes for the Western Screech-owl as part of a ...