It’s difficult to ID Eastern and Western screech-owl species—location is your best bet. Hear their call and learn about their ...

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 ...

The sound was unmistakable and led me outdoors to face the thick woods across the road. In the advancing twilight the sound pierced the darkness again, and then again. The ghostly mournful wail, best ...

Long ago, before children went door to door trick-or-treating, it was the reverberating basso call of a great horned owl — “whoo-whoo” — or the shrill tremolo whistle of a screech owl that spooked the ...

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 ...