But small and medium sized owls, such as the screech owl and the barn owl, are literally better fits for nesting boxes. Rhode Island even has a volunteer-run nesting box program for barn owls.

Plans for building a box and other screech owl info, including recordings, can be found at the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s website, wildlife.ohiodnr.gov. Naturalist Jim McCormac writes a column ...

The large northwest subspecies 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 individuals are ...

It was tucked away in a nest box on Audubon’s property–one that was designed specifically to attract screech owls. It was still a pleasant surprise when we opened it and saw the owl inside, angrily ...

Boxes for Eastern screech owls need to be much smaller than the barred owl, for example. Perhaps unsurprisingly, where these boxes are placed — whether in the center of a wood lot or along the edge, ...