Oregon is owl country. Spend enough time in an old-growth forest or out on a high desert trail and you’ll eventually hear one ...

Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. A listener responded to our invitation to send recordings of backyard wildlife with audio of a spooky bird ...

They start at the 11th hour of the night, or in the wee hours of the morning, with a basso song that reverberates through the bedroom window. “Who’s-awake? Me-too,” sounds the call. A pair of great ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN -- “Birds of omen, dark and foul,” wrote Sir Walter Scott about owls, once considered harbingers of doom, death, and destruction. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches and an ...

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 ...

Fierce winds buffeted the woods near Cheney on April 18. The gusts whooshed through the trees, rocking them back and forth and knocking a great horned owl nest out of its tree. Most of the time ...