Turn your sound up, and listen to this Western Screech Owl call out with her distinctive "ping-pong bounce" voice before heading out on rodent patrol. No, they don't screech as their primary sound...In the Sonoran Desert the Western Screech Owl often nest in saguaro boots originally hollowed out by other birds such as Woodpeckers. These natural canteen style containers were used by Native Americans as a primary vessel for water and food collection. I collect them as wall containers for my tools

A well-camouflaged little raptor, the Whiskered Screech-Owl’s U.S. population even managed to hide from scientists until almost the dawn of the 20th century. It’s easy to see why it took a while: Although a bit smaller and with slightly more heavily scalloped underparts, the Whiskered Screech-Owl very closely resembles the two other U.S. screech-owls, the Western and the Eastern. Once documented, the bird currently known as the Whiskered Screech-Owl was initially called the Arizona Whiskered Owl