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 ...

The agency said humans probably paved the way for barred owls to migrate as they learned to suppress forest fires and they planted trees in the Great Plains and Canada’s boreal forest. The owls ...

Researchers say barred owls moved westward by one of two routes: across the Great Plains, where trees planted by settlers gave them a foothold in new areas; or via Canada’s boreal forests, which ...

Over the course of three decades, wildlife officials in the United States plan to kill off 450,000 “invasive” American owls and their hybrid offspring. The reduction of the barred owl ...

HEGYI: Barred owls are native to the woodlands of the eastern U.S., but they started to move west in the early 1900s as more trees were planted in the Great Plains.

The northern spotted owl can’t get a break. The Pacific Northwest bird's survival is in peril due to a combination of factors including climate change, wildfires, human-caused habitat ...

To save the spotted owl from possible extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a plan to kill nearly 500,000 barred owls by deploying trained shooters into West Coast forests.

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 ...

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half ...

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.