Screech owls may be the reason you think an abandoned house is haunted, says Barb Rogers of the Wildlife Recovery Association ...

They are the snowy owl, great horned Owl, Eastern screech owl, Northern saw-whet owl, barred owl, barn owl, long-eared owl, and short-eared Owl.

There are three owl species in Indiana that could use more nesting boxes: the barn owl, barred owl and Eastern screech owl. Here's what to do.

Screech owls are relatively common in a variety of wooded situations, including town parks and residential neighborhoods, but being both small and strictly nocturnal are not often seen.

So, unless you are lucky enough to stumble into an owl that likes to bask in the sun at its roost hole, your odds of seeing a screech owl aren’t great, even though this is by far the most common ...

The western screech owl makes a call that doesn’t align with the bird’s name, sounding more like what local birder Nic Korte calls a “bouncing ball trill.” But while the little owl, which ...