There are a lot of unusual sounds out there in the natural world. Here’s one from the nighttime forest, often heard this time of year. No, it’s not a school bus backing up. It’s a tiny owl, the ...

The Northern saw-whet owl is the symbolic face of conservation in Pennsylvania. The Wild Resource Conservation Program uses a saw-whet owl as its emblem, and the Commonwealth featured a saw-whet owl ...

Lots of interesting and little-known creatures emerge under cover of darkness. Some of them are human, but most are not. Perhaps foremost in piquing human interest about animals that ply their trade ...

Northern saw-whet owls are not only incredibly cute, they're now confirmed as a nesting species in Newfoundland and Labrador. The nest was discovered by College of the North Atlantic fish and wildlife ...

Few animals are as cute as a Northern saw-whet owl. They seem impossibly tiny. A big one weighs only about 3.2 ounces - the same as a stack of 15 quarters, but the little owls are worth far more than ...

Grand Forks raptor expert and licensed bander Tim Driscoll banded more than 200 saw-whet owls and four Eastern screech-owls this fall at Turtle River State Park with help from park naturalist Erika ...

Early last October, I was fortunate enough to spend an evening, along with a few other birders, with John Fedak at his saw-whet owl banding station near the Kinzua Dam in the Allegheny National Forest ...

The reaction to the Rockefeller Christmas tree’s reveal this week was … less than enthusiastic. But its scrawny exterior hid a very small, very cute winged stowaway. A petite Saw-whet owl that had ...

A stranger dropped in at Orvis and June Haugen's place the other day. They're my neighbors near Gilby, N.D. Actually, they didn't see the visitor arrive. They noticed it when they looked out the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A small owl is receiving the TLC it needs after it was discovered in the Rockefeller Christmas tree this week. Officials at Ravensbeared Wildlife Center said they received a call ...