A peaceful evening at the Sea Point Promenade was disrupted on February 16, 2025, when a Spotted Eagle Owl was brutally ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A female barred owl sits on a branch in the wooded hills, Dec. 13, ...

Introduced last year, the plan aims to kill 450,000 invasive barred owls, which are a threat to the region's native spotted owl. The letter claims that about $3,000 would be needed to kill one owl ...

Federal job cuts have upended spotted owl surveys in Northern and Southern California. It’s unclear whether wildfire mitigation strategies such as forest thinning can happen if the surveys are ...

It's a little chick who hatched on Monday and is a Eurasian Eagle-Owl! The new chick's parents ... They have been known to be spotted in city parks, and according to the Peregrine Fund, one ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will protect the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. The owls have seen their numbers dwindle because of ...

Like its cousins the Mexican and northern spotted owls, the California spotted owl is a bellwether of old-growth forests. This owl's classic four-note call was once commonly heard throughout the big ...

In April, the Eurasian eagle owl flew away from a handler during ... "routine training session" and was later found dead. The ...

In Oregon between 1995 and 2017, spotted owl populations in high density owl territory declined by up to 75%. In Washington, some spotted owl territories saw population declines of up to 80% ...

Scientists for years have been shooting barred owls on an experimental basis and officials say the results show the strategy could halt spotted owl declines. As of last year, about 4,500 barred ...