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Below are photos of the feet of an Eastern Screech-Owl. A friend recently found the bird dead in his yard, offering me a chance for photos before he disposed of it. (It is illegal to possess owls ...
Eastern Screech Owls are fierce predators. They spend the nights hunting small mammals like mice, moles, and voles, and have even been known to take on a squirrel or young rabbit. A single Eastern ...
Screech owls may be the reason you think an abandoned house is haunted, says Barb Rogers of the Wildlife Recovery Association ...
Others played recorded screech-owl calls. One bozo played his recording over and over for about 10 minutes. Some people, impatient, clapped their hands and stamped their feet to get the owl to ...
The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...
A starry-eyed owl in California has been dazzling people with his big blind eyes, which look like they are filled with swirling galaxies. Zeus, an adorable western screech owl, was found flapping e… ...
A screech owl in North Texas recently found itself in a tough spot before crews came to the rescue. Blackland Prairie Raptor Center in North Texas freed a trapped screech owl from a basketball post.