The most famous owl in Texas is back to raise a new generation of owlets. Athena, the celebrity great horned owl at Austin's Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, has been under close watch after she ...

and the Mexican spotted owl is the Southwest's most famous old-growth resident. Unfortunately, by the late 1980s — at the height of logging operations in the national forests — biologists estimated ...

The great horned owl is the most common owl of the Americas, easily recognizable because of the feather tufts on its head. These “plumicorns” resemble horns or, to some, catlike ears.

Biologist Eric Forsman was delighted that a breeding pair of wild spotted owls he has studied for years did it again (their 3-week-old hatchlings on a hemlock in Oregon this past May).

“The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport,” a film about Norman Smith's work with the birds, won the Audience Choice award at the American Conservation Film Festival. Smith has relocated over 900 snowy ...