The Friends of Beltzville State Park are hoping to lure some special visitors to the area — and they’d like to see them stay for a while. The group recently built and placed a barn owl nesting box in ...

It’s hard to believe that the barn owl (Tyto alba), the most widely distributed owl over our entire globe, is struggling here in Pennsylvania and in many other states. In fact, in 2020 only 45 known ...

SEATTLE — A hiker believes he was attacked by an owl while he was walking on a trail at Discovery Park in Seattle. "All the sudden, I felt like I got hit over the head by a stick or something out of ...

A Co Down farmer is celebrating after a barn owl successfully bred on his land for the third year in a row. There are less than 30 breeding pairs of the rare bird in Northern Ireland. Work to support ...

A Co Down farmer is celebrating after one of Northern Ireland’s rarest birds successfully bred on his land for the third year in a row. Barn owl numbers are down to fewer than 30 breeding pairs in the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Fairfax has a new town mascot. The town has made the northern spotted owl its official bird in an effort to honor the area’s ecological heritage. The federally and state protected owl resides ...

Menlo School senior Eliza Low with a barn owl nesting box she built. Courtesy Marianne Plunder. Local hikers in Portola Valley may have recently spotted wooden boxes nailed in the trees. These are ...

A Republican congressman introduced a resolution to stop a government plan to kill roughly 450,000 barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. The plan is intended to protect spotted owls. The plan, ...

A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to protect endangered spotted owls is in jeopardy after the Trump administration terminated three critical grants funding the ...