WASHINGTON - Photographing a snowy owl is a challenge on almost every wildlife photographer's bucket list. But just spotting one in Maryland can be a rewarding experience. In North America, the ...

Irruptions happen when young snowy owls, pushed out by older, dominant birds in the Arctic, travel farther south in search of ...

VALPARAISO — While the arctic’s most well-known resident — the one who brings toys — makes his appearance in Northwest Indiana in just a few weeks, another arctic resident already has arrived. Snowy ...

(WLUK) -- Wildlife officials say a snowy owl found dead in southern Wisconsin died from emaciation. On Feb. 5, a dead snowy owl was found in New Glarus with no apparent signs of the cause of death. A ...

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 ...

This year's snowy owl migration is marked by the bird's recent classification as a threatened species by the Committee on the ...

A pair of burrowing owls made themselves at home aboard Royal Caribbean International's Allure of the Seas in February, joining a trans-Atlantic sailing to Spain. They'll return to the United States n ...

A pair of burrowing owls that hitched a ride to Spain aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship sailing from PortMiami earlier ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday proposed saving the endangered northern spotted owl by shooting more than 400,000 barred owls in Oregon and Washington over a 30-year period. More than ...

A northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl, right, in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to eastern North America but began moving ...

U.S. wildlife officials next year will scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests. Federal officials said Wednesday they've ...

The federal government issued a plan Wednesday that could eliminate 400,000 barred owls, an invasive species, to protect threatened spotted owls in the western U.S. Barred owls, those that will be ...