We recently spent a morning birding with friends at Canyon Hill Cemetery in Caldwell. It was cloudy and breezy, with golden leaves swirling around — a classic November day. It may surprise you to hear that cemeteries are great places to go birding.
Authorities with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources say 10 wild birds have tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and test…
My first two columns on the owls of Idaho covered a lot of the basic attributes of owls as a group. Over the next few columns, I want to look more closely at each of our fourteen species. Our owls differ in many ways, so there are a number of angles to take to figure out which species to address first, which second, and so on.
Fourteen species of owls have been seen in Idaho and 13of them are documented breeders. These include the barn owl, flammulated owl, western screech-owl, great horned owl, snowy owl, northern hawk owl, northern pygmy-owl, burrowing owl, barred owl, great gray owl, long-eared owl, short-eared owl, boreal owl, and northern saw-whet owl. Try to figure out which one does not nest here.
POCATELLO — One of the night’s stealthiest predators is now calling Zoo Idaho home.
