Screech owls, barred owls, Tengelmalm’s owls, elf owls, and Ural owls are examples of cavity nesters that nest inside trees or cacti.

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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 September.

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 ...

U.S. wildlife officials next year will scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests.

Western burrowing owls have lost most of their grasslands to development in California, but new research shows how relocating them can work.

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 ...

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.

This summer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a plan to kill thousands of invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. A lawsuit may hold up broader implementation.

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 ...