Barred owls must watch innumerable humans, deer, raccoons and other forest creatures pass below their roost, as they wait for a night of hunting voles and other smallish prey.

Barred owls began invading spotted owl territory in British Columbia in 1959, then expanded into Washington and Oregon around 1970, reaching California by the mid-1970s.

They arrived on the West Coast from the east via one of two routes. Or maybe both. The simplest story is that the owls crossed the Great Plains of the United States, ...

Barred owls arrived in the Pacific Northwest via the Great Plains, ... group of lawmakers on Monday urged the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in ...

ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 2019 AND THEREAFTER- This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a ...

Range in North America. Observation tips. Burrowing owls arrive at their breeding grounds in March throughout the western Great Plains and southern Florida and begin to migrate south in August and ...

Santa Claus wasn't the only one flying south from way up north this December. It turns out the Snowy Owl, which calls the arctic tundra home, has been seen as far south as the Kansas City and ...

Originally from the eastern part of North America, the owl started moving west in the early 20th century. The Fish and Wildlife Service theorizes that it could have been a natural expansion of the owl ...

Barred owls, those that will be killed if the plan is finalized, are native to the eastern U.S., but likely migrated west due to man-made changes to the Great Plains and northern boreal forest.

Although owls build nests, they do not actually live in them. Nests are just for incubating eggs and raising chicks. Instead, adult owls roost on tree branches or in a hollow tree during the day.

To displace, or evict, the owls, the researchers installed one-way doors in burrows, waited until the birds left, and collapsed the holes. The team then tracked the movements of the 19 displaced owls.

Raju Acharya, a pioneering owl conservationist in Nepal, shares his passion and challenges for studying and protecting the country’s 23 owl species, which are largely neglected by researchers ...