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 ...

Q:My son and I are fascinated by owls and would really like to see more of them. What owls might we see in the metro area and where should we look for them? A: Two things clue us in that an owl is in ...

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 ...

Imagine being outside 24 hours a day, in January, in Minnesota. Imagine being an accomplished hunter, capable of caching extra food to get you through hard times. Then imagine having no source of heat ...

It was well north of 3 a.m. when the soft hooting of a distant great horned owl pulled me from the gentle arms of Morpheus, that mythological god of sleep and dreams. In the heat and stillness of the ...

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 of Ornithology helped solve the mystery. OK, that's not ...