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An aura of mystery surrounds the comings and goings of snowy owls in Maine. The first birds show up between October and December in areas reminiscent of their summer hunting grounds on the Arctic ...

In the same way that I like to look for signs of spring, now, in the fall, I enjoy the countdown to winter. I have a short-term goal as well — the countdown to Halloween. How many "ghoulish" things in ...

In November, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed shooting over 400,000 barred owls over the next 30 years in order to save endangered spotted owls. The agency has experimented with shooting ...

This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to ...

The Owls Head Transportation Museum will receive $1.5 million in congressionally directed spending for its STEM community ...

The plight of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped New York’s Central Park Zoo last year, showed just how tough it is to survive in a world altered by humans. The gorgeous creature with a ...

In many respects, 2024 was the unfortunate year of the owl – the barred owl, long protected across the nation under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act – that ended up in the crosshairs of our own federal ...

Research at the Global Owl Project’s human-made burrowing owl network in eastern Oregon has revealed some fascinating habits of the tiny raptors. Here are five things that project Director David ...