It’s difficult to ID Eastern and Western screech-owl species—location is your best bet. Hear their call and learn about their ...

Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the ...

A great horned owl was able to survive an encounter with a barbed wire fence in Fulshear, Texas, thanks to a local constable.

Researchers have tracked 89 northern saw-whet owls (Aegolius acadicus) along a migration corridor in Western Montana, ...

Kracht is the author of 'The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America,' 'The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World,' 'The Big Dumb Bird Journal' and 'OMFG, Bees!: Bees Are So ...

In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first purple martins of the year have been spotted in South Dakota.

But what has been the toll on wild birds? More than 170 species of North American wild birds – including ducks, geese, gulls, owls, eagles and others – have been infected with bird flu.

Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first ...