Gurgaon: The elusive mountain scops-owl (Otus spilocephalus) — sometimes referred to as the spotted scops owl — was ...

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

An owl briefly visited the studio early Thursday, landing in front of our KXAN Weather Cam on top of the building before ...

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 ...

After the spotted owl was listed as a threatened species in 1990, the federal government limited logging on millions of acres ...

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 ...

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% ...

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Among the smallest owl species in North America, the saw-whet is the size of a smartphone topped with a pingpong ball. With a ...

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 ...

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 ...