Next time you hear hooting and it sounds like “Who’s coming for dinner,” take a look in your garden or backyard to determine ...

Killing 60,000 to 100,000 barred owls across a portion of California and the West would save the Spotted owl from extinction.

The California spotted owl is a medium-sized raptor weighing roughly 1 1/2 pounds, found throughout mountainous and coastal regions of California. Because they were not listed as either endangered or ...

A new novel is full of intrigue and suspense, but it conveys the reality of what is happening to western communities in the ...

The northern spotted owl is fluffy, a little bigger than a football, with dark, luminous eyes and a remarkably mellow demeanor around humans. In the Pacific Northwest, ...

The northern spotted owl first gained critical habitat protection in 1992, and those were adjusted in 2012 under the Obama administration. That rule was challenged in court by the timber industry, ...

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 ...

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.