Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the last five years, a stream of hopeful kids and grown men alike have filed on stage to compete in the natural-voice Owl Hoot ...

ARCATA, Calif. — The hooting had died down and the two bird lovers faced the immensity of the dark forest. Scanning his light among the redwoods, Danny Hofstadter listened. The distant ocean sounded ...

A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, a soft, crescendoing hoot. "There she is," says Matthias Leu, chair of ...

The sounds of an owl outside at night can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. If you're a nature lover, it's probably a reminder of all the amazing wildlife living just ...

Spend enough time in an old-growth forest or out on a high desert trail and you’ll eventually hear one: the deep, sonorous hoot of a great horned owl, or the barred owl’s unmistakable “who cooks for ...