But while barred owls may have supplanted habitat loss as the biggest threat to spotted owls, that doesn’t mean habitat conservation is any less important, according to Henson.

Spotted owls mate for life, sticking in their patch of forest and often nesting at the same roost year after year. In the fall, juveniles strike out to look for territory of their own.

Rapidly declining California spotted owls nest and roost in the trees; a forestwide survey of the owls is now up in the air after a biologist leading the project was fired. (Myung J. Chun / Los ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to enlist shooters to kill more than 500,000 barred owls over the next 30 years in the Pacific Northwest to preserve habitat for northern spotted ...

Among them is Maria Cominis, a resident in the Cypress neighborhood who first spotted the owl on a neighbor’s roof on Dec.26 — another neighbor, Barabara Arguello, who lives on the Palau ...

Barred owls aren't usually found in the same area where great horned owls roost, ... Sadly, they're now pushing out the spotted owl, a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

ghost owls do not hoot, but instead they hiss or shriek to communicate. THEY PREFER TO ROOST IN OLD TREE CAVITIES, BUT EXPERTS SAY A LOT OF THEIR HABITAT IN IOWA HAS BEEN CUT DOWN TO MAKE LAND ...

Sharp-eyed Patton had spotted a basking eastern screech owl at the entrance to its roost hole 30 feet up in a giant sycamore. I found myself in the area on Dec. 22 and stopped by on a sunny but ...

But while barred owls may have supplanted habitat loss as the biggest threat to spotted owls, that doesn’t mean habitat conservation is any less important, according to Henson.

Among them is Maria Cominis, a resident in the Cypress neighborhood who first spotted the owl on a neighbor’s roof on Dec.26 — another neighbor, Barabara Arguello, who lives on the Palau ...

A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest Service-led monitoring program for the endangered species said a federal ...

Perhaps no species was more emblematic of conflict over the Endangered Species Act in the Pacific Northwest than the Northern spotted owl. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...