The Adorable Screech Owl. Screech owls are a small, stocky bird, about the size of a robin. They come in two colors: mottled gray, and mottled red, both of which provide excellent disguises in ...

On the chilly morning of Dec. 5, Alex Patton headed into a coffee shop in Utica. On his way out, he glanced across the nearby stream and noticed the bird in the accompanying photo. Sharp-eyed Patton ...

The birds that Levihn-Coon photographed were a mated pair near their nest, he said. One of the owls had a rare reddish-brown, ...

What is this organism? Where is it found? When am I likely to see it? And, most interesting and most difficult to answer, why ...

A screech owl peeks out from its nest box in Branchburg, New Jersey. ... Screech owls come in two color forms, rusty reddish or brownish gray, which are unrelated to age or sex.

The Eastern Screech Owl is an expert in camouflage, their feathers allow them to easily blend in with hollow trunks and tree bark. The average length is 8.5 inches, and their weight is six ounces.

Sharp-eyed Patton had spotted a basking eastern screech owl at the entrance to its roost hole 30 feet up in a giant sycamore. ... (a morph is a color form). Advertisement. Advertisement.

The Adorable Screech Owl. Screech owls are a small, stocky bird, about the size of a robin. They come in two colors: mottled gray, and mottled red, both of which provide excellent disguises in ...

The eastern screech-owl is a hole-nester that requires pre-existing holes of an adequate size. It cannot live where trees do not have a sufficient diameter to provide such holes. PHOTO BY SCOTT SURNER ...