A listener responded to our invitation to send recordings of backyard wildlife with audio of a spooky bird screech. An expert at the Cornell Lab... Decoding Nature: Identifying Sounds A Horned Owl ...

Owls are more often heard than seen. In New York, there are eight species of these interesting raptors, with the majority most active at night. Some live here year-round, some are migratory. They ...

Look for flashes of white on dark roads, and you might spot an American barn owl. Learn about a barn owl call, nest, wings ...

Like all owls, the vision of great horned owls is extraordinary. Special light-sensitive cells contribute to their amazing ...

Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

Quick Take A full recovery for a Great Horned Owl that fell into cement was only possible thanks to the help of a quick-thinking construction crew and a rehabilitation center. Implementing 20-minute ...

The spring sun was heating up the stream at my feet, silver and quick. I lay on the grassy bank, the water mumbling under the lazy clouds drifting over my head. "Click!" came a sound like two sticks ...

And let's take a moment to listen to the sounds of your backyard, or one like yours. OK, that's not actually a bird whistling reveille. But when we invited people to send us sounds of nature, we heard ...

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OK, that's not actually a bird whistling reveille. But when we invited people to send us sounds of nature, we heard sounds that were distinctive enough. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In the audio of ...

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