When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

As Alex Bell and I were finishing our area of the Howe Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, January 3, his cell phone rang, ...

A nearly 200-year mystery in owl taxonomy has been solved, with Pulsatrix perspicillata pulsatrix formally recognised as a ...

Ragnar Smith describes the discovery and identification of the Western Palearctic's second-ever Short-billed Gull in the ...

CHARLESTON — Fort Sumter sees more than 411,000 visitors per year, but one might stay a while. A burrowing owl was spotted on the grounds in late December — a rare occurrence since the owl is ...

Hushed, they waited, all ears and eyes, binoculars clutched to their chests. The trees rose around them, columns bearing the weight of the snow and sky. Gusts of wind shivered powder down onto their ...

Two barn owls were found dead in one of the Twin Barns in the Billy Frank Jr. National Wildlife Refuge in Thurston County. The two owls died of avian influenza, or bird flu, according to a social ...

VALLEY PARK, Mo. — A rare seasonal visitor to Missouri is recovering at the World Bird Sanctuary after being hit by a car. The World Bird Sanctuary says that a Northern saw-whet owl, one of the ...

Indiana has a rich biodiversity with thousands of species in unique habitats, but growth and development have changed some of those fragile ecosystems and threaten the wildlife they support. IndyStar ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2023. We are republishing it as part of our winter coverage. Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an ...