After three fruitless journeys into the darkness this past Monday night, Sonia Martinez and her daughter, Isabel, finally hit paydirt. There, in mist nets the Martinezes had helped install an hour ...

Salmon River fishing guide Shane Thomas said he was finishing a drift boat float trip Monday afternoon with a couple of clients when one noticed a small, struggling bird wrapped up in fishing line. It ...

Owl Research Institute field technician and head bander Lauren Tate works to band a saw-whet owl at Flathead Lake Biological Station Tuesday, Oct. 15. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle) A Saw-whet owl gets ...

TURTLE RIVER STATE PARK, N.D.-Offering a guarantee of success is a dicey proposition with any pursuit, but Tim Driscoll liked his chances of catching at least one Northern saw-whet owl on this crisp, ...

Owl Research Institute intern Zach Burke counts the feathers on a northern saw-whet owl's wing to determine an approximate age range during a banding survey at Flathead Lake Biological Station on ...

Autumn’s north winds, cold temperatures, and long dark nights are what northern saw-whet owl banders dream about. Like many other bird species, northern saw-whet owls begin their southern migration to ...

The northern saw-whet owl may well be the cutest animal in New Hampshire’s forests. It’s also one of the most elusive. On a recent field trip to the Black Mountain Banding Station in Sutton to observe ...

Flying south under the radar during the fall migration through Massachusetts are thousands of tiny, facially adorable and nocturnally secretive saw-whet owls. If we didn’t catch them at our banding ...