NEW YORK - This year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree brought a tiny holiday surprise to New York City. Earlier this week, workers who were setting up the tree found a small owl among the branches of the ...

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 ...

In the Inland Northwest, tiny owls with large, cartoonish yellow eyes manage to be everywhere and nowhere. Weighing little more than a robin, the northern saw-whet owl is a year-round resident of our ...

Each palm-size owl caught is a rush, not only because it is an encounter in the dark with pure wildness. Saw-whets are one of ...

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is now standing proud in New York City, but the people in charge of transporting it found a stowaway -- a Saw-whet owl. The 75-foot Norway spruce was being moved ...

The Berkshire Bird Observatory (BBO) brings groups of visitors into the woods to witness the secretive northern saw-whet owls that the organization captures in large ‘mist nets’ set up at Jug End ...

The Something Wild team donned headlamps recently and trekked into the dark night of the Forest Society’s Black Mountain Forest in Sutton. Grace McCulloch of NH Audubon and Dave Anderson of the Forest ...

EGREMONT — “Awws” filled the quiet woods as Ben Nickley lifted a northern saw-whet owl from a cloth bag, giving 15 spectators a look at the mysterious, tiny bird under the lantern light. “She's so ...

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 ...