It’s March. This is when I find myself torn between clinging to winter and beginning to look for signs of spring, for the forest to begin to shake off its winter torpor. A time to look for breeding ...

In the same way that I like to look for signs of spring, now, in the fall, I enjoy the countdown to winter. I have a short-term goal as well — the countdown to Halloween. How many "ghoulish" things in ...

CHAMPAIGN -- “Birds of omen, dark and foul,” wrote Sir Walter Scott about owls, once considered harbingers of doom, death, and destruction. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches and an ...

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 ...

TURTLE RIVER STATE PARK, N.D.-Conditions were favorable enough on this Monday March evening-no wind and no moon-but Erika Kolbow and Tim Driscoll weren't exactly brimming with enthusiasm about the ...

What I call the Owl Relativity Theory could add solidity to the idea that barn owls have much wider distribution in Minnesota than ever imagined. These could be itinerant barn owls, but barn owls ...

Federal job cuts have upended spotted owl surveys in Northern and Southern California. It’s unclear whether wildfire mitigation strategies such as forest thinning can happen if the surveys are not ...