The small 8-inch owls produce tremulous trills that can sound chilling in the darkness, as heard during the recent ...

It’s dusk, and you’re outside taking down the last of the Christmas decorations. Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a ping-pong ball that just got dropped. It starts out slow, accelerates in tempo ...

In an old abandoned house we hear spooky, eerie, ghostlike wailing - haunting voices that move through walls and suddenly emerge from a different room. But wait! Halloween has come and gone, or are ...

The sound was unmistakable and led me outdoors to face the thick woods across the road. In the advancing twilight the sound pierced the darkness again, and then again. The ghostly mournful wail, best ...

Eastern screech owls are famous for searching for a comfortable spot in mid-winter and choosing a chimney for its safety from winter storms. You often hear the muffled scratching as he works his way ...

Have you ever been on an owl prowl? It’s a nighttime hike in the woods where you listen for the calls, shrieks and whistles of owls to help you get a glimpse of them. Holleback is Riveredge's Citizen ...

Q. Why are they called screech owls when the only sound I’ve ever heard them make are warbling noises that remind me of musical Morse code? A. I was able to answer this question a few years ago during ...

There are sounds of nature that make me stop what I am doing and listen intently, as if drawn into a deep wildness that is both awesome and yet unnerving. No sound does this more for me than the call ...

On silent wings, owls fly at night, whether in the open or through deep woods. They are seldom active during the day. Their large eyes face forward, allowing them to have binocular vision. This ...

Observers say the western screech owl is down to just a few birds, mainly due to habitat loss and predation by its larger ...