Spotted lanternfly season is back in Pennsylvania. The polka-dotted, gray-and-red-winged adult insects make their appearance ...

Barred owls, with their vivid brown stripes, are acting like bullies of the forest in the Northwest, driving their smaller cousins, the northern spotted owl, to the brink of extinction. Once ...

The northern spotted owl first gained critical habitat protection in 1992; those were adjusted in 2012 under the Obama administration.

West Coast counties joined with forest product companies Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s designation of critical habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl. Four ...

Spotted owls are disappearing fast, and federal cuts could mean no one’s left to count them A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif.

In Oregon between 1995 and 2017, spotted owl populations in high density owl territory declined by up to 75%. In Washington, some spotted owl territories saw population declines of up to 80% ...

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 ...

Without barred owl management and older forest habitat protections, the spotted owls are likely to go extinct, said Tom Wheeler, executive director at the Environmental Protection Information Center.

The Eurasian chaffinch is one of the most common birds to spot in the UK, and are typically identified by their loud songs ...

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Given the ecosystemic impacts of barred owls, removing them is also likely to benefit other wildlife beyond the spotted owl.

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.