Great Horned Owl
| Bubo virginianus | Order: Strigiformes | Family: Strigidae (Owls) |
Bubo virginianus
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae (Owls)
The largest “eared” owl in North America makes a soft, muffled-sounding Hoo-hoo-hoo. Hoo. Hoo. It often nests in abandoned Red-tailed Hawk nests and oversized cavities in trees.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- The bear necessities and other close encounters of the mammalian kind 2024
- When a Stranger Knocks (A momentary diversion from more important matters) 2024
- Crow vocalizations and good news 2024
- Pileated Update 2024
- Rat Poison 2024
- Death of a New York Celebrity: Flaco the Owl 2024
- Superb Owl Sunday 2024
- Drama on Peabody Street 2023
- Of Magpie Nests and "Man's Pitiful Confusions" 2023
- Book Review: What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman 2023
- Superb Owl Sunday 2023 2023
- First Pileated of 2023 2023
- Saw-whet Owl! 2022
- Homemade Books and Picture Cards for Small Children 2022
- Children's Bird Book Week, Part 2 2022
- Chickadee Day 2022: The Worst of Times 2022
- Birding from Home, 2021 2021
- Our Far-Flung Correspondents: WDRT Listener Mark Kastel's Barn Swallows 2021
- American Birding Association 2021 Bird of the Year 2021
- Centennial Celebration for a Spruce 2020
- November Pleasures 2020
- Superstitions about Owls, Part 2 2020
- Superstitions about Owls, Part I 2020
- October Snow! 2020
- August 2020
- Tuesday Bonus: The Tale of Frederick and Sneakers 2020
- Backyard Fox! 2020
- Cacawphony 2020
- Great Gray Owl 2020
- Birds in Art: 2019 2019
- Owl Adventure with Laurens Halsey 2019
- Spring Update: March Madness 2019
- From the Archives: Great Horned Owl Drama 2019
- Disney's Sleeping Beauty and a Real-Life Owl 2018
- Transitions 2018
- Letter from Listener: Becca's Great Gray Owl 2018
- Of Lifer Owls and Extraordinary Sporting Wins 2018
- Our Far Flung Correspondents: Owls and Fences 2018
- Owls 2018
- Passport to Adventure, Part II 2017
- Long Ago and Not Too Far Away 2017
- Where Are the Birds? Part 2 2017
- High Plains Snow Goose Festival 2017
- February Romance 2017
- Requiem for a Beloved Tree 2016
- Valentine's Day 2015
- A Visit to the Audiologist 2014
- My First Book: The Little Golden Book Bird Stamps 2014
- Merlin Tag Team 2014
- Movie Review: A Birder's Guide to Everything 2014
- Birding in Madison, Wisconsin 2013
- Cornell Heron Cam: Science and Emotion Both, Part II 2012
- Cornell's Heron Cam: Science and Emotions Together 2012
- Chickadee Research 2012
- Personalizing Herons 2012
- Midnight Madness in a Great Blue Heron Nest! 2012
- Valentine's Day 2012 2012
- Owl Controversy Part I 2011
- Merlins 2011
- Translating Owl Sounds 2011
- Angry Birds 2011
- New Year's Day predictions based on your first bird of the year 2011
- Owls and Fences 2010
- Winter Bird Movements 2010
- Beautiful Fall 2010
- A Perfect Day 2010
- Prolonged Autumn 2009
- Triskaidekaphobia 2009
- February Funk 2009
- Ruffed Grouse 2008
- Baker Woodlot Then and Now 2008
- Willow Ptarmigan 2008
- Peregrine Falcon vs. Great Horned Owl 2008
- Serendipity Owl 2008
- Owl Vision 2007
- Dogs vs. Hawks and Other Predators 2007
- New Year 2007 2007
- Skunked! 2006
- Gary Duke 2006
- Great Blue Heron colony 2006
- Photon and the Coyotes (from Arkansas) 2006
- Christmas Bird Count 2005 2005
- Great Blue Heron colony 2005
- Interview with Jeff Wells, Part 2 2005
- Bird of the Year: Black-capped Chickadee 2005
- Owl Invasion! 2004
- Birds in the News: Great Horned Owl, poaching, bird flu, and safer rice crops 2004
- Superstitions 2004
- West Nile Virus: Crows dealing with grief 2004
- Great Horned Owl Drama 2004
- Snowy Night by Mary Oliver 2004
- Cats 2003
- Mars 2003
- Yard List, Part II 2003
- Where the Boids Are 2003
- Crows 2003
- Winter: the Sounds of Silence 2003
- Mona Rutgers dealing with West Nile Virus. 2002
- Roadside Birding 2002
- April Dusk 2002
- New Year's Chickadees 2002
- Leonids 2001
- First Harry Potter movie 2001
- Night Sounds 2001
- Gluttony 2000
- Mark Alt's Owl Story 2000
- Far Away Places (modified from 1996) 2000
- Jim Baker's Blue Jay Vocalization Decoder Ring 2000
- Movie Review: Sleepy Hollow 2000
- Cats, Part II 2000
- Feathers 1999
- Saw-whet Owls: Early Spring 1999
- Provincial Birds 1999
- Eastern Screech-Owl 1999
- Blue Moon (reworked from 1990) 1999
- Mysterious October 1998
- The Brownie Connection, Redux 1998
- Barred Owl 1997
- Owl of February 1997
- IBM Owl 1997
- Great Gray Owl 1997
- Far Away Places 1996
- Spring Arrives 1996
- Spring! 1996
- The Brownie Connection 1996
- Christmas Bird Count 1995
- Redpolls 1995
- Feathers for Humans 1995
- Adopt an Owl 1995
- Eagle Nest 1995
- Signs of Spring 1995
- Saw-whet Owls 1995
- Owls 1995
- Long-eared Owl (Placeholder) 1993
- Owls (Placeholder) 1993
- Phone call from a stranger (Placeholder) 1993
- Hawk Counting 1992
- Frederick and Sneakers 1992
- Big Day 1992 1992
- Barred Owl (revised) 1991
- Pine Grosbeak 1991
- End of National Blue Jay Awareness Month 1990 1990
- Owls and Crows, and DinoJay Action Figures 1990
- Christmas Bird Count Summary, 1989 1989
- Winter Hush 1989
- Bambi 1989
- Mobbing and Piracy 1989
- Nighthawks and Jays 1989
- Baby Bird Biology, Part II 1989
- Baby Bird Biology, Part I 1989
- Great Horned Owl 1989
- Barred Owl 1989
- Owl Calls 1989
- Valentine's Day 1989 1989
- Great Gray Owl 1989
- Feeder contest 1989
- White-breasted Nuthatch 1988
- Movie Review: Bambi 1988
- Birds in Science Fiction 1988
- Steve Wilson's Owl Census 1988
- Owls: Minnesota Nongame Wildlife Program 1988
- Spring Update 1988
- Winter Olympics 1988
- Movie Review: Snow White 1987
- Peregrine Falcon Reintroduction 1987
- More migration updates 1987
- More signs of spring 1987
- Valentine's Day 1987 1987
- Owls 1987
- Christmas Bird Count 1986 1986
- Fourth of July Birds 1986
- Familiar Songs and Calls 1986
- Crows (and Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow") 1986