The tiny Northern saw-whet owl is famous for making a repetitive toot. The sounds are comparable to the sound a saw makes sharpening on a whetstone. Their “toot-toot-toot-toot” call helps them ...

This autumn, I will be spending a lot of time in the woods at night, listening to what sounds like a garbage ... of the call of a male northern saw-whet owl, a pint-sized predator as big as ...