Images authentically show a snowy owl with bright orange coloring. Rating: True (About this rating?) In early 2025, pictures purporting to show a bright orange snowy owl delighted and mystified ...

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.

They’ve quickly displaced many spotted owls, which are smaller birds that need larger territories to breed.An estimated 100,000 barred owls now live within a range that contains only about 7,100 ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will protect the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. The owls have seen their numbers dwindle because of ...

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PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity learned this week from a project collaborator, Taal Levi, that regional monitoring for northern spotted owls either won’t occur or will be greatly ...