Life with Chloe the barred owl is an absolute hoot. Take it from Angie Llanas, senior animal ambassador at SeaWorld San Antonio. That is, if you can hear her over Chloe’s lively hoots and squawks.
Lately, you may have heard them: “hoot” owls. No such critter named “hoot owl” appears in any field guide, but their calls earn them the moniker. The “hoo-hoo-hoo” kinds of calls belong to either ...
Of all the creative ways to strike up a gobble, the owl hoot is a tried-and-true classic. But in all the times you’ve let “who cooks for you” rip, have you ever stopped to wonder why turkeys often ...
I heard a barred owl hooting one night in the woods that surround my house. A few nights later, I heard a great horned owl, with a different, descending pattern of hoots. What I heard was probably ...
A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, ...
It’s 2 a.m. on Easter morning, and I’m awakened by "Hoo ho-hoo? Hoo hooo." The cadence is like, “Who’s awake? Me, too.” I open my window. The night is still. For certain, a great horned owl is calling ...
Backyard bird feeders attract a host of creatures looking for food in the winter, but to my surprise, this winter, the tube feeders and their devotees attracted a visit from a barred owl.We live on ...
Spotting an owl glide through the treetops is a thrilling experience, its silhouette a shadow against the twilight sky. A hallmark of owls is their completely silent flight. But when they do make ...
Trina Whitener makes animal noises for a living. As a naturalist/field specialist at Valley Park’s World Bird Sanctuary, she’s one of several folks who lead the organization’s instructional Owl ...
The sound startled my daughter and I as we walked through the mid-afternoon forest. A loud echoing hoot shot across the valley. The sound was coming from a dense patch of hemlock trees up the hill. It ...
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 ...
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