A young screech owl may be on the mend while learning how to navigate being an owl, and the Leander community is ensuring his recovery.

The Eastern Screech Owl was Travis County Audubon’s bird of the year for 2025.

Trending News: Zeus, a blind Western screech owl, was discovered injured and unable to fly in Central California. Diagnosed with capsular cataracts, his eyes now shi ...

Owl boxes re-create the tree cavities where owls nest in nature. Later on, long after I’d given up hope of ever hosting owls, I saw a feathered head of a Western screech owl poking out of the ...

A young screech owl is safe and rehabilitating after being rescued by Leander Animal Services. The owl, named "Hootie Hoot" by Leander police, was found hiding on a resident's front porch in the ...

In 1972, Roxie Laybourne was a 61-year-old ornithologist working in Washington, D.C., when she was asked to testify at a Maine murder trial. Photograph from Smithsonian Institution Archives; video ...

In 1988 she officially retired from the Smithsonian although she continued her feather identification work as a Research Associate until her death. In her later years, she also served as a consultant ...

Per Dr. Carla J. Dove, Smithsonian Feather Identification Lab, 2017: The physical avian identification below is based on examination of microscopic structures in the downy feathers and comparison of ...

Forest-dwelling species like the eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) have bark-like patterns, while species inhabiting open grasslands, such as the short-eared owl (Asio flammeus), display more ...