Such intruders can pose a serious threat to fish owls and other endangered species, for instance by hitting animals with their vehicles or causing accidental wildfires. 2:31.

The snowy owl is listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The species population has decreased 64% since 1970, per Partners in Flight.

With over 250 species of owls from the order Strigiformes in the world, it’s hard to define exactly where owls live. (The answer is: Pretty much everywhere!) Owls live in many habitats, from ...

The Endangered Species Act, enacted in 1973, protects wild animals in several ways. It prohibits people from actions that "harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect ...

Snowy owls rely heavily on lemmings as a food source — a small rodent species also in decline, said Rodrigue. Lemmings survive the winter by digging tunnels through the snow to feed on grasses ...

Northern spotted owls are federally protected as a threatened species. Federal officials determined in 2020 that their continued decline merited an upgrade to the more critical designation of ...

From 2013 to 2021, agency sharpshooters killed 3,000 barred owls in four study sites across the Pacific Northwest to prove that culling would help save northern spotted owls, a threatened species ...

No longer. A paper published in December in Bird Conservation International presented the first global assessment of snowy owl numbers.. And they are a cause for heightened concern for the species ...

Owls come in all sizes. The largest owl out there is the great gray owl, which can reach up to 2-1/2 feet in length!This big, charismatic species of the northern boreal forests has the most ...

The Trump administration has proposed changing the interpretation of the Endangered Species Act to allow developers to alter the habitats of endangered species such as panthers, sea turtles, and owls.

A snowy owl equipped with a transmitter is set to be released at Salisbury Beach in Massachusetts on Mar. 8, 2017. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

Snowy owls rely heavily on lemmings as a food source — a small rodent species also in decline, said Rodrigue. Lemmings survive the winter by digging tunnels through the snow to feed on grasses ...