Seeing an owl is a magnificent experience — but one Michigan snowy owl is truly unique. What caused the owl to have red-orange feathers?

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 ...

Images authentically show a snowy owl with bright orange coloring. Rating: In early 2025, pictures purporting to show a ...

It's breeding season for the rapidly declining California spotted owl, and Ben Vizzachero was about to lead an effort to survey the stately conifer forests and oak woodlands of Los Padres National ...

Efforts to track northern spotted owl populations might be one of the latest casualties in the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts. In a press release issued Wednesday ...

A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest Service-led monitoring program for the endangered species said a federal ...

Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a plan to kill up to nearly a half-million barred owls in West Coast states over three decades to protect the spotted owl. A bipartisan group ...

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 ...

That included logging restrictions under former President Bill Clinton that ignited bitter political fights and temporarily helped slow the spotted owl’s decline. A bipartisan group of lawmakers ...