In 1990, a small bird became an unlikely symbol of one of America’s fiercest environmental battles. The northern spotted owl ...

Northern spotted owls are disappearing across the Pacific Northwest as breeding pairs fall to dangerously low regional levels ...

Northern spotted owls are becoming functionally extinct across large swaths of the Pacific Northwest, a new study said.

New research has found that northern spotted owls are approaching or have already crossed functional extinction across large ...

The northern spotted owl is either functionally extinct or close to it in large parts of the Pacific Northwest, according to ...

Northern spotted owl populations are approaching or have already crossed functional extinction across large areas of the ...

(AP) - 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 ...

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Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data in a lab from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, in Corvallis, Ore. U.S. wildlife officials want to kill hundreds of thousands ...