During a study of territorial behaviour of the Pygmy Owl in NE Italy we used spectrographic analyses of recorded territorial calls to distinguish individual males. Two temporal parameters and the mean ...

This time of year, the female pygmy owl perches and sings, “po, po, po, po, po, po” – at about the rate of a truck’s back up beeper – to attract a male to her. If you are lucky enough to observe a ...

Jonathan Shull, Johnson County native, was already set to compete in two national bird calling competitions in February — now ...

Dark clouds float across a full moon as a gust of wind sways tree branches and sends fallen leaves rustling along the ground. An owl hoots in the distance ... Scared yet? The eerie sounds of owls have ...

The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 107, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 7-25 (19 pages) The Least Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium minutissimum) complex comprises 10 described taxa that inhabit tropical and subtropical forests.

A hummingbird alerted me. It darted about very erratically rather than the smooth flying while taking nectar from flowers. And it wasn’t darting around flowers but zig-zagging around like a fly over ...

Hikers on an outing in the Cascades occasionally look up to a tree-top and notice a tiny owl staring down at them. This is the northern pygmy-owl and it is tiny, indeed, a mere 63/4 inches long. Only ...

The cactus ferruginous pygmy-owls that inhabit Arizona are sticking the Fish and Wildlife Service with a pretty big problem. The cactus ferruginous pygmy-owls that inhabit Arizona are sticking the ...

The pygmy owl tops out at 6.7 inches long and weighs 2 to 2.6 ounces, depending on its sex. It’s colored reddish brown overall, with a cream-colored belly streaked with reddish brown. Its eyes are ...