GOP legislators and animal rights activists have sought to stop a plan to cull barred owls to save spotted owls. The timber ...

The Intertribal Timber Council (ITC) is a nonprofit nation-wide consortium of Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, and ...

As part of Project Owlnet, the Something Wild team observed northern saw-whet owls being banded to learn more about their ...

A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When confronted with predators, songbirds have more than just their ...

Fleeing isn’t the only way by which songbirds can protect themselves against predators. Many songbird species are known to engage in mobbing, where they gather aggressively around a bird of prey, ...

As a great horned owl mother was attending to her newborn owlets on a cloudless morning, a predator disturbed the calm, swooping into her home aloft a pine tree. The mamma owl, known as Bayley, did ...

Five Halloween black-clad witches stand watch in our front yard. Robins strut around them to search the ground for worms, oblivious to the evil omens foretelling "toil and trouble," as in ...

Five of us sat around a table inside Carpenter Nature Center in Hastings on a chilly night in early November, waiting for night creatures. We each wore a headlamp to help guide us in the dark and warm ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s something so awe-inspiring about catching sight of an owl. Unlike almost all other birds of prey, ...

The late evening and nighttime melody my wife and I enjoy this time of year suggested the topic of today’s column. So, I’ll start with one of the fiercest (my brother likely still has the scars in his ...