It’s March. This is when I find myself torn between clinging to winter and beginning to look for signs of spring, for the forest to begin to shake off its winter torpor. A time to look for breeding ...

The hoots of the great horned owl, the most common owl species in San Diego County, are something we hear throughout the year ...

It’s dusk, and you’re outside taking down the last of the Christmas decorations. Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a ping-pong ball that just got dropped. It starts out slow, accelerates in tempo ...

DEAR JOAN: We read your column about the great horned owl in the redwood tree. We live near the El Cerrito greenbelt where most of the trees are huge eucalyptus, but there are also smaller trees of ...

DEAR JOAN: We live about a mile from Mission San Jose, and sometimes I hear birds making a “hoo-hoo” call at around 1 or 2 a.m. We were wondering if the calls are being made by owls, doves or pigeons?

DEAR JOAN: We have lived in a quiet residential neighborhood very near downtown for 42 years. Yesterday, a murder of crows was making a terrible racket in our back garden. When we investigated there ...

WINTER PARK, Fla. — Firefighters are said to rescue cats from trees, but this time they had a hoot of a time trying to untangle the situation. Firefighters in Winter Park, Florida, responded to a call ...

Two deputies freed a Great Horned Owl that was tangled in one of the goals, and with the help of another person, they were able to cut the net wrapped around the owl's legs, neck and wings. The owl ...

An owl was on the loose on the Upper East Side Thursday, after vandals let it get free from its enclosure at the Central Park Zoo, officials said. The Eurasian Eagle-owl named Flaco was discovered ...