and the spotted owl is just a little bit smaller, just a little bit less aggressive and the barred owl is kind of the king of the roost and tends to push the spotted owl into less ideal habitat ...

By Amy McDermott for the National Academy of Sciences. Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service ...

Federal job cuts have upended spotted owl surveys in Northern and Southern California. It’s unclear whether wildfire mitigation strategies such as forest thinning can happen if the surveys are ...

to locate owl pellets and feces of northern spotted and barred owls at the base of trees where the owls roost. Maps showing the habitat types were used to hone in on the best places to search for ...

He looked at 20 protected activity centers, or PACs, which are areas where spotted owls are known to roost and nest, during the breeding season between 2014 and 2016. He compared current ...

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. But now the ...

A holiday mystery: Extremely rare snowy owl spotted in Southern California ... Like the Cypress owl, they would roost during the day and leave at night to hunt and then return.

THESE ENDANGERED ANIMALS WERE SPOTTED IN MADISON ... WILDLIFE LOCATIONS. GHOST OWLS DO NOT HOOT, BUT INSTEAD THEY HISS OR SHRIEK TO COMMUNICATE. THEY PREFER TO ROOST IN OLD TREE CAVITIES, BUT ...

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 ...