BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 15, 2026
You can find three owl species in Maine. No, make that four. No, five. OK, maybe 10. Four species nest in Maine — great horned owl, barred owl, northern saw-whet owl and eastern screech-owl. Two species possibly nest here — short-eared owl and long-eared owl — but these two are rarely encountered in summer. Four species occasionally visit from the north in winter months — snowy owl, great gray owl, northern hawk-owl and (rarely) boreal owl. ~ Bob Duchesne