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 ...

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 ...

“We call them a tree cancer — when there’s an odd branch sticking up or a bump out on a trunk, that’s usually an owl.” This is also the time to remind humans with their cameras to curb their curiosity ...

Snowy Owls once were birds of total mystery, appearing in the U.S. now and again, sometimes blessing us with many birds, very time eventually disappearing to the north, journeys uncharted and unknown.

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 ...

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 ...