DALLAS — You could say a North Texas bird rescue group gave a hoot when they recently rescued a screech owl that’d gotten stuck in a basketball post. A homeowner called Blackland Prairie ...

A homeowner called Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, a bird rehabilitation center based in Allen, after hearing an eastern screech owl that appeared distressed and finding it stuck in a basketball hoop ...

Normally only gray morph birds are found on the Great Plains and in southernmost Texas. The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl ...

Raptor specialist Jo Santiago, left, and raptor rescue volunteer Connor Sneberger prepare to release a newly healthy screech owl along Back Road in Randolph County. (Photo courtesy of Keri Lewis ...

Sharp-eyed Patton had spotted a basking eastern screech owl at the entrance to its roost hole 30 feet up in a giant sycamore. I found myself in the area on Dec. 22 and stopped by on a sunny but ...

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

Of those, the more advanced birders were excited by birds such as the Pine Siskin and Winter Wren. My favorite bird of the day, however, was one that I’m sure I’ve walked by dozens of times without ...