The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

Another common – and arguably the most adorable – owl of Iowa is the screech owl. Coming in at about eight inches tall, they ...

The juvenile remains dependent on parents for ... max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at the base, but gray-plumaged ...