High up in a snow-covered tree, the barred owl watches its prey. It waits for the right moment, then, swoosh! It leaps gracefully from its perch and grabs its prey in its mighty talons. The prey never ...

Have you ever been on an owl prowl? It’s a nighttime hike in the woods where you listen for the calls, shrieks and whistles of owls to help you get a glimpse of them. Holleback is Riveredge's Citizen ...

Mid-December is a time of cold, snow, ice and darkness. Though the cold, snow and ice may vary from year to year, the darkness is a consistent annual phenomenon. We will soon be at the winter solstice ...

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 ...

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...

A plan to shoot down half a million barred owls in the northwestern United States could ensure the continued existence of its close relative, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ...

An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years. Northern spotted owl populations have declined by up to 80 percent over ...

A controversial plan to kill one owl species to save another cleared a major hurdle. The full Senate on Wednesday struck down a GOP effort to prevent the cull of up to 450,000 barred owls in the ...