Last month, I observed a bird on my property that had never been seen or heard there before. As I was getting ready for bed, I heard an owl calling from the forest in my yard. I hear owls ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MATTHEW BROWN To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Barred owls, with their vivid brown stripes, are acting like bullies of the forest in the Northwest, driving their smaller cousins, the northern spotted owl, ...

Every summer for decades, seasonal Forest Service employees have headed into some of the Pacific Northwest’s most rugged terrain to survey for threatened spotted owls. Under the Endangered Species Act ...

JENNER HEADLANDS PRESERVE ― Ryan Berger stands motionless, head cocked, index finger in the air, as the call comes from the darkened redwood forest. Four notes dropping down at the end, repeated over ...

The Pacific Northwest bird's survival is in peril due to a combination of factors including climate change, wildfires, human-caused habitat destruction, and competition with invasive species in its ...

A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to protect endangered spotted owls is in jeopardy after the Trump administration terminated three critical grants funding the ...