Few people pay much attention to woodpeckers. Either they are just things that live out there, or they are homewreckers.

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.

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.

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.

Barred owls arrived in the Pacific Northwest via the Great Plains, where trees planted by settlers gave them a foothold, or via Canada’s boreal forests, which became warmer and more hospitable ...

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 ...

ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 2019 AND THEREAFTER- This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a ...

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.

To displace, or evict, the owls, the researchers installed one-way doors in burrows, waited until the birds left, and collapsed the holes. The team then tracked the movements of the 19 displaced owls.

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 ...