It’s good to have a goal ― even if it’s screeching like a seagull. And that was the aim of the Fifth Annual European Gull Screeching Championship, which attracted 60 seagull soundalikes from 14 ...

Last week, I talked about the birds that nest in early spring. I talked about the screech owls and bluebirds that start searching for nesting sites in March. Many take to nesting cavities in trees.

Three screech-owls are found in North America: eastern, western and whiskered. But about 22 screech-owl species are found in the world, all in the Americas. Estimated breeding populations of ...