FOSTER – The baby owl, just two or three weeks old, was out of the nest and in trouble. Still a few weeks shy of learning to fly, the young great horned owl was found on the ground after the winds of ...

With piercing eyes and an air of silent command, this mysterious giant of the night weaves through the shadows, cloaked in ...

In August 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a plan to kill 450,000 invasive barred owls along the West Coast. The plan permits the lethal removal of the owls by attracting them ...

These days it's not the size of the chicken but the size of the chicken's egg that counts. Rob Griffin and his family were stunned recently when their chicken laid a massive egg more than three ...

Or when, to preserve warblers, cowbirds that lay eggs in warbler nests were killed. The barred owl removals would be among the largest such efforts to date involving birds of prey, researchers and ...

Athena incubates two eggs in her nest at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. The beloved great horned owl Athena has returned for her 13th consecutive season at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower ...

She is pretty low in the nest now as she sits on her eggs. Mama owls have a special incubation patch on their bellies, designed to keep eggs warm. Once the eggs hatch, activity in the nest should be ...

Avian flu is claiming the lives of iconic San Francisco Bay wildfowl, and the Trump administration can hardly be trusted to contain it.