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

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 ...

These tiny owls have become synonymous with wild Sonoran Desert: Endangered Species Act protections for the owl initiated a new era of urban planning in southern Arizona. Within the bird's critical ...

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 ...

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.

The rhythms of many species are more varied and flexible than previously thought, and those rhythms are shifting, in response to humans. The research, published February 26 in the journal Science ...

The proposed ski resort's gondola routes pass through a protected wildlife area at Elk Creek, which the province set aside in 2011 as long-term habitat for the northern spotted owl. (Submitted by ...