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

Among the smallest owl species in North America ... bright yellow eyes and white and brown mottled feathers, it resembles a cute cuddly toy. But when it comes to capturing rodents, the 3- to ...

With piercing eyes and an air of silent command, this mysterious giant of the night weaves through the shadows, cloaked in ...

While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to their toes, the Cuban screech owl’s warm tropical habitat appears to have encouraged it to evolve permanent Bermuda ...

The spotted owl has been categorized as threatened under the Endangered Species Act since the 1990s, due in large part to the encroachment of barred owls on their habitat. Now, ecologists are ...

As an avian icon, curious and vocal, this owl is an excellent indicator of the health of these forests and the hundreds of species that depend on them. Although northern spotted owl populations have ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will protect the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. The owls have seen their numbers dwindle because of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) An international team of biologists has discovered a tiny new species of owl, called the Príncipe scops owl, living in a remote forest on an island off the west coast of Africa.

Early last October, I was fortunate enough to spend an evening, along with a few other birders, with John Fedak at his saw-whet owl banding station near the Kinzua Dam in the Allegheny National ...