If you have day-hiked in the Smokies, you have undoubtedly been monitored, unawares, from a tree cavity. The unseen watcher? A winged super-predator resting with one eye open, waiting for dusk or ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Ten years of studying the northern spotted owl has revealed more serious threats to its survival, but no clear path to keeping it from extinction. Scientists, conservationists and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northern saw-whet owl rests in the hand of Blake Mathys, just prior to its release. Lots of interesting and little-known ...

The Northern Saw-whet Owl is the only local owl I’ve never seen, but just knowing this cool-looking owl is out there is good enough. At night they keep busy hunting in conifer forest and riparian ...

It was a cold winter’s night and my beautiful wife Susan and I were watching movies. There was a fire crackling in the wood stove, we were enjoying good food and drink and we were both all snoodled up ...

Lots of interesting and little-known creatures emerge under cover of darkness. Some of them are human, but most are not. Perhaps foremost in piquing human interest about animals that ply their trade ...