With the appearance of a snowy owl Wednesday, the suite of predators that visit the Red River Valley from the north is complete. The snowy owl was a first of the season for me, and I've had only one ...

Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on rodents scurrying along the ground below. Scientists have long puzzled over a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s something so awe-inspiring about catching sight of an owl. Unlike almost all other birds of prey, ...

Five Halloween black-clad witches stand watch in our front yard. Robins strut around them to search the ground for worms, oblivious to the evil omens foretelling "toil and trouble," as in ...

Fleeing isn’t the only way by which songbirds can protect themselves against predators. Many songbird species are known to engage in mobbing, where they gather aggressively around a bird of prey, ...

Anyone who has spent time in a park or backyard has probably noticed how noisy crows can get when an owl is nearby. The calls ...

High atop the branches of an Eastern white pine, the alarm sounds near midnight. “Hoo-hoohoo-hoo” goes the call. It’s the unmistakable hoot of Pennsylvania’s own tiger of the air – the great horned ...

The late evening and nighttime melody my wife and I enjoy this time of year suggested the topic of today’s column. So, I’ll start with one of the fiercest (my brother likely still has the scars in his ...

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