This week, U.S. senators voted against halting a plan to kill off more than 450,000 barred owls to protect another species of owl—the spotted owl.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — After a review prompted by a timber industry lawsuit, the federal government announced Thursday that the northern spotted owl, the icon of logging wars in the Northwest, will ...

A new species of owl has just been described from Príncipe Island, part of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe in Central Africa. Scientists were first able to confirm its presence in ...

The two-page resolution provides for congressional disapproval of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that proposes killing roughly 453,000 Barred Owls in Washington, Oregon and California. The ...

FRESNO, Calif. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday rejected a petition to list the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act, saying the population is stable and programs ...

In many respects, 2024 was the year of the unfortunate barred owl. One that flew through a chimney and perched atop a Christmas tree was ushered back to nature. A Maine-based bird rehabilitation ...

Homer, a great gray owl at Montana Wild Wings. Biologists in Glacier National Park are looking to learn more about the park's great gray and boreal owls. (Daily Inter Lake file photo) Glacier National ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the California spotted owl population in the Sierra Nevada as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. USFW has ...

A species of small, furry owls who nest underground in open fields are in imminent danger of extinction and may get a lifeline extended from the California Fish and Game Commission. A petition to list ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is asking for the public to review if the northern spotted owl should stay on the state's endangered species list. The public is ...

A new species of owl has just been described from Príncipe Island, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Testimonies from local people suggesting its existence date back to 1928. A new species ...