The birds weigh about as much as a bar of soap. That’s how Melissa Boyle Acuti describes the northern saw-whet owl, the smallest owl species found in Maryland and one of the smallest in North ...

It’s not a truck. Rather, it’s a recording of the call of a male northern saw-whet owl, a pint-sized predator as big as a soda can that weighs about as much as a robin, and nests in the ...