The owl is nocturnal with keen senses of sight and sound. It sees through the shadows of the night and hears the sounds in the silence; the illusion of the darkness.” – Anonymous Winter evenings and ...

This time of year I get a lot of emails and texts from people reporting they hear an owl hooting outside their windows at night. While many enjoy the sound, others complain they can’t sleep.

A barred owl made quite a stir in Arlington, Virginia, over the Christmas holiday. The bird evidently was playing Santa Claus ...

It’s no secret that owls are a hot topic in the bird world. These birds of prey are fascinating, unique and rarely seen due ...

Collisions with wind turbines are a documented threat to the lives of individual raptors. However, wind development also ...

Q:I’m a big owl fan and have seen several kinds, especially the great horned owl. But I wonder: Why I don’t ever see short-eared owls? A:These tawny owls with their dramatically outlined eyes spend ...

Working in my backyard, my ears strained to hear what I thought was a great horned owl off in the distance ... to fly in near silence in search of prey. They skillfully zig zag through open ...

Skunks are weaned after two months and the young skunks follow their mother for the first few months before going off on ...

Over a dozen ducks and wild birds at the Queens and Bronx zoos have died, likely all due to the avian flu sweeping the ...

A mink is most active at dawn and dusk, and one recent dawn is when Steve Pollick spied one on his Ohio property he refers to as Froggy Bottom. (Photo courtesy of Steve Pollick) ...

The City Council unanimously voted to ban the use of a class of rat poisons known as second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, or SGARs, on city-owned property after a public hearing ...

Whether it’s your own backyard, or one of the many parks in Southwest Ohio, there countless birds and wildlife to discover, making the area a great place for winter birding.