Earlier this week, I had a late afternoon coffee date in Larimore, North Dakota. On my way home, north on state Highway 18, I glanced left to look at the sunset and I spied a short-eared owl. Thus, ...

This Journal of Raptor Research issue focuses on movement ecology—how and why raptors move. This can include classic movements like migration, as well as nomadism.

The gray-tinted sky spread like a shawl over the landscape; nothing disturbed its stillness by flying across. A thousand fenceposts stood upright, some with fencing attached and some without. A ...

Each year as I work on my “year list” I’m always relieved each time I observe another owl species. They seem hard for me to find, mostly because many of them are nocturnal and you have to go out at ...

Ohio’s six species of regularly occurring owls are generally much easier to hear than see. The big three in central Ohio are the barred owl, eastern screech owl and great horned owl. While barred owls ...

The short-eared owl is a bird of open spaces -- tundra, marshes, grasslands. It is also the owl most likely to be seen hunting in daylight. Owls rely heavily on sound to find their prey. The circular ...

Standing on a country road in the middle of a reclaimed strip mine — Bear Run Mine in Sullivan County — we patiently await sundown for the show of short-eared owls. A colorful, lone coyote is spotted ...

I’ve spent much, much more time looking for owls than I’ve spent actually seeing them. Most of my looking has been in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming for great gray owls. I figured I would have a decent ...

With the door slowly closing on October and beginning to open on winter, the flush of migrating birds will rapidly diminish. Soon, we will only have the birds that have determined to winter in our ...

For 40 years Chris Martin of NH Audubon Society has been observing birds, but he has never set his eyes on a short-eared owl.Last week, while watching for signs of osprey returning on the Seabrook ...

The seasonal show starts around 3:00 PM over the reclaimed Somerville strip-mine lands east of Mackey, Ind. The stage is vast, admission free, and the show highly acclaimed. The cast? State-endangered ...