Hearing the screech owls in my woods tune up for the season is an annual late summer treat. Despite open windows, a Phillies game blasting from the TV and my Labrador Max occasionally barking from … ...

Screech owls, in fact, are responsible for most of the calls to law enforcement insisting that ghosts are residing in an old barn, abandoned house or shed.

It's March and at night, owls are calling from the woods, as primordial a sound as it gets. Here's how you can tell which owl you are hearing.

The animal lovers at ZooEarthTV record a screech owl delivering haunting yet beautiful calls. You have two coins that equal 30 cents One is not a quarter What two coins do you have ...

It sounds sort of like a toad mating call (if you happen to know what a toad mating call sounds like). Screech owls are more common along the coast and will usually avoid areas with barred and ...

The screech owl’s eerie call is best described as a descending whinny that lasts 2-to-3 seconds. Hear either of these owls’ songs a time or two and they’ll become etched in the mind.

The first paper I found was titled "Accommodation of Screech-owls to playback of recorded calls." Briefly, accommodation means the owls get used to the recorded call very quickly and stop responding.

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 ...

Here is a link to various eastern screech owl calls from the Cornell Lab for Ornithology, All About Birds website. The website indicates that “both males and females sing, and their most common sound ...

Rangers at Powhatan State Park will provide nature lovers the unique opportunity to learn to recognize to owl calls Thursday evening.

Screech owls snag fish and crayfish, too. Even a crude whistled imitation of a screech owl call can bring in a bird to investigate. Try it if you think one is around.