The phrase “a parliament of owls” comes from medieval times, when people loved giving poetic names to animal groups. Writers imagined that owls, with their calm eyes and thoughtful faces, held wise ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and California after a short-lived effort to halt the cull was thwarted in the ...

A Biden-era plan to kill 5,00,000 owls is moving forward despite widespread criticism. The government has decided to kill nearly half a million barred owls because they are better hunters and are ...

Keep your head on a swivel, Seattle parkgoers. You never know “hoo” might swoop down from the trees. An owl recently dive-bombed a parkgoer at Lincoln Park in West Seattle and snatched their hat, said ...

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is displacing its native neighbor and mascot, the burrowing owl, as the school expands its Boca Raton campus. Once the owls flee, FAU staff fill the empty burrows ...

Journal Editorial Report: Texas and California take up gerrymandering fights. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to save owls by killing owls. The government’s plan is to kill up to 450,000 ...

HERMISTON, Ore. — Out in eastern Oregon, a colony of tiny owls is thriving, thanks to old apple juice barrels. The little birds who nest in the ground instead of trees — aptly called burrowing owls — ...

A bipartisan parliament of House and Senate members today is calling on Congress to kill an expensive plan ordered by former President Joe Biden to shoot 450,000 barred owls bullying the endangered ...

Wildlife advocates who oppose a controversial federal management plan to slaughter one type of owl in Pacific Coast forests to save another appear to have found an unlikely ally in President Donald ...

A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to protect endangered spotted owls is in jeopardy after the Trump administration terminated three critical grants funding the ...

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 ...

The birds that Levihn-Coon photographed were a mated pair near their nest, he said. One of the owls had a rare reddish-brown, or rufous, coloration. Typically, Eastern Screech Owls in Central Texas ...