Owls use their ears when they hunt. Sounds prey make – the footsteps of a vole on a forest floor, for instance -- are captured by ears that are asymmetrically placed on the bird's head. One ear is ...

DONNELLY FLATS — Po-po-po-po-po-po came the rapidly repeated low whistling. I recognized the sound immediately — the call of a northern boreal owl. These tiny Alaska owls begin calling now and their ...

We have three small owls that share a lot of characteristics. They are the boreal owl (Aegolius funereus) of North America and Eurasia, known as Tengmalm’s owl in Eurasia, and in North America the ...

A Our state is rich in owls. In early April, you have a chance of seeing 10 species of owls in Minnesota. Long-eared, short-eared, Northern saw-whet, snowy, great horned, great gray, barred, boreal, ...

On these March nights, a male boreal owl has been singing from a wooden owl box near our home. The late biologist Dave Klein attached the nest box to a black spruce tree north of the University of ...

Scientists at the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) University of Minnesota-Duluth are wrapping up two studies of hard-to-find animals in Minnesota -- the Canada lynx and the boreal owl. The ...

Talk about Call of the Wild. A new iPhone app from The Center for Biological Diversity puts the sounds of endangered animals on your cell phone. You can literally hear them howling (or screeching, or ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City Central High School senior Evan Reister has a new feather in his cap. The avid birder and award-winning nature photographer recently captured images of an elusive boreal ...