A nature enthusiast and bird watcher has captured a short-eared owl in flight at the side of the roadside in East Lancashire.

A coalition of conservation groups announced it has intervened in a lawsuit that seeks to remove almost 3.5 million acres of land in California, Oregon and Washington from protected status. The land ...

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 ...

If we can’t do the surveys, the logging may need to stop,” he added. open image in gallery The northern spotted owl is one of the most studied birds in the world. Monitoring the federally ...

Efforts to track northern spotted owl populations might be one of the latest casualties in the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts. In a press release issued Wednesday ...

Stripes, round bodies, dark penetrating eyes. At a glance, the barred owl and the northern spotted owl are easily mistaken for the same bird. So what warrants protections for one and killing the ...

Here among the world’s tallest trees, Hofstadter and Cameron are part of a tiny band of biologists holding the line against an invasion that threatens to push the northern spotted owl ...

The northern spotted owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990 by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and has been at the center of a contentious debate about logging ...

The Barred Owl is considered “invasive” in the Pacific Northwest and it’s pushing the Northern Spotted Owl to extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a plan — kill nearly half a ...

To prevent the extinction of the northern spotted owl, is killing barred owls really the only option? Yes. For over 20 years, scientists have studied if there is another way, and struck out.

Where they were taken, northern spotted owl populations stabilized, resulting studies say. In control areas, where barred owls were left alone, spotted owls continued to decline at about 12% a year.

Officials said northern spotted owl populations in the northern half of the species’ range ‒ where barred owls have moved in most aggressively ‒ have dropped by more than 75% in 20 years.