For the Eastern screech owl, the boxes should be placed on a live tree or a pole anywhere between 10 to 30 feet above the ground. It's recommended the box be placed under a tree limb at the woodland ...
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 ...
All in all, it doesn’t sound like it would be a bad thing to have a screech owl in your barn—and it would certainly be easier to see them there than inside the branch of a tree.
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 ...