“Those areas, people can’t get to very easily ... That’s how Melissa Boyle Acuti describes the northern saw-whet owl, the smallest owl species found in Maryland and one of the smallest ...

known as Tengmalm’s owl in Eurasia, and in North America the northern saw-whet owl (A. acadicus) and the western screech owl (Megascops kennicottii). In our area, they are forest birds (although ...