I had come to see one of the planet's most-studied birds—the Northern spotted owl—with the man who brought the animal to the world's attention. Forsman stopped. "You hear it?" he asked.

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 ...

California spotted owl family found nesting and reproducing in the Lake fire of 2015 in the San Bernardino mountains, California, where no post-fire logging occurred. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

A California Spotted Owl in Yosemite National Park. Image may only be used to accompany stories based on this press release. Other usage is not authorized by the photographer. To request ...

The owl butterfly may be beautiful, but looks can be deceptive: in reality the species is something of a hooligan. The juice guzzler loves nothing more than a day feeding on fermented fruit and ...

In the latest legal tussle over much-litigated protections for the northern spotted owl, environmental groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday for missing mandatory deadlines to review ...