To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...

Reader Todd Mackinaw recently admired how the great horned owl can thrive from the Brooks Range in Alaska all the way to Uruguay in South America. The knee-high owl, known for its “plumicorns” — tufts ...

A juvenile barred owl in Kirkland, Wash. (Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images) The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Owls are some of the best-known birds in the world, famous for their hooting calls and their excellent eyesight. There are ...

Nearly 500,000 barred owls in Northern California, Oregon and Washington state will soon be under the gun if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service goes ahead with its latest scheme to save the endangered ...

Owls are among the most iconic birds on Earth, known for their stealth, size, and piercing eyes. While many species are small and elusive, others reach incredible proportions and dominate their ...

Whether it swims, crawls, runs or flies, it's not easy to estimate the population of a wildlife species. That challenge is even greater when the animal lives in some of the most remote regions of the ...