To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie, true poems flee.” – Emily Dickinson Tonight’s the night! At ...

Owl tags, and data sheets cover a table in a cabin on Casper Mountain where Audubon Rockies is tagging and conducting research on northern saw-whet owls Thursday night, Oct. 26, 2017.

Saw-whet wing feathers contain a pigment called porphyrin, which glows pink under UV light. New feathers glow more brightly than older feathers. Due to the owl’s molt pattern, they can be aged ...

Saw-whets prefer evergreen forests with thick understory growing at higher elevations. In Pennsylvania, that usually means hemlock forests thick with rhododendron and/or mountain laurel. Surveys ...

Sean says there could be four different species of owls in the woods tonight: screech, saw-whet, barred, and great horned. This part of Pennsylvania also sees snowy, which migrate, and saw-whet ...

In recent years, one saw-whet did achieve high profile status: Rocky, an owl that was rescued from the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York City, treated at a wildlife rehabilitation site ...

January 3, 2025 0 462 Often mistaken as a “baby,” the adult saw-whet owl measures a mere 8 inches in height. (Tami Gingrich photo) It’s hard to ignore birds of prey.

Among their achievements the men helped prove the migratory nature of northern saw-whet owls. And the long-term data set allowed observation of trends in raptor numbers during the use of DDT and ...

Saw-whet owls like to hunt for bugs from low-slung bushes, which is probably what the tree looked like on its side. When the tree’s branches were later wrapped, she simply became trapped.

According to the PGC and the Owl Research Institute, the Northern Saw-whet Owl is not only Pennsylvania’s smallest owl (body length of 6 to 8 inches and an 18-inch wingspan), but it is one of ...