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 ...

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 ...

Fairfax has a new town mascot. The town has made the northern spotted owl its official bird in an effort to honor the area’s ecological heritage. The federally and state protected owl resides ...

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 ...

For researchers, endangered and threatened birds like the Northern Spotted Owl and the Marbled Murrelet can be incredibly hard to find and study in the wild. Now, new research shows that artificial ...

Large raptors make rare winter appearances in the southern reaches of their territory. The post Winter strays: Great gray ...

The DNR recorded 64 snowy owls in Wisconsin, an average number and short of an "irruption," or large movement of Arctic birds into the state.

Northern spotted owl numbers have continued to decline in North America’s Pacific Northwest, partly due to competition from barred owls considered invasive in the region. The spotted owl has been ...

Dozens of people and their pets were forced out into the cold after a fire broke out at an apartment building in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood.It started a Southbound I-5 reopens after fatal ...

A rare snowy owl native to the Arctic has been spotted around Milwaukee County and drawing some large crowds, as experts urge people to keep their distance and protect the bird’s safety.

The spotted owl has long served as a flagship species for environmentalists across the nation, and the Mexican spotted owl is the Southwest's most famous old-growth resident. Unfortunately, by the ...

A group of 19 lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter last week, asking the federal government to halt a plan that aims to kill tens of thousands of barred owls along the West Coast, including in ...