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

The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at the base, but gray-plumaged individuals are otherwise nearly identical in appearance and habits to the Eastern gray morph birds.

A surefire and highly optimistic harbinger of spring is the great horned owl. The massive owl is the first Ohio bird species to commence nesting, sometimes laying eggs by late January.

The red-tailed hawk, eastern screech owl, broad-winged hawk and gryfalcon, along with their handlers, were stars of a Wild ...