It’s 2 a.m. on Easter morning, and I’m awakened by "Hoo ho-hoo? Hoo hooo." The cadence is like, “Who’s awake? Me, too.” I open my window. The night is still. For certain, a great horned owl is calling ...

Of all the creative ways to strike up a gobble, the owl hoot is a tried-and-true classic. But in all the times you’ve let “who cooks for you” rip, have you ever stopped to wonder why turkeys often ...

It was a hoot on Good Morning Twin Tiers as we welcomed a special guest for this week’s Tanglewood Tuesday, Sophie, a great ...

If you explore our old-growth forests or the high desert trails long enough, you’ll hear the deep, sonorous hoot of the great horned owl or the whimsical “who cooks for you” hoot of the barred owl.

There are at least 250 species of owls in the world, but only a few are more commonly seen (and heard) in Northern California and across the United States. The most common owls you’ll encounter in ...

It was well north of 3 a.m. when the soft hooting of a distant great horned owl pulled me from the gentle arms of Morpheus, that mythological god of sleep and dreams. In the heat and stillness of the ...

This wildlife story started six months ago on a lonely winter night in deep forest. The affair reached its pinnacle late this past week. It provides a glimpse into the little-seen world of wildlife.

Hoot Owl Creek is a small tributary of the Russian River in Alexander Valley, northeast of Healdsburg. Presumably, you can sometimes hear the calling of owls there. A “hoot owl” can be one of several ...

Uhu, a Eurasian eagle-owl at the International Owl Center in Houston, Minn., rests its head on the shoulder of Karla Bloem, the center's director. --or on a quiet walk in the woods. I'm talking about ...