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

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.

This is the time of the year to get some nesting boxes prepared for our feathered friends. Bluebirds, wood ducks, kestrels, ...

Many take to nesting cavities in trees ... gave us an appropriate house-warming gift: a screech owl box. It was appropriate because the town of Essex seems to be full of screech owls.