The university’s research has visited Williamsburg, James City County, Newport News and Richmond for their studies.

This research highlights the need to study the entire diel cycle—the full 24-hour period—in animal ecology, rather than focusing solely on their active phases. For example, while owls are typically ...

A juvenile barred owl in Kirkland, Wash. (Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images) The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Federal officials are taking action to save a threatened and endangered owl, but it will come at a cost to another species. The goal is to help the Northern and California Spotted Owl from the ...

A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special conservation status by federal and state governments. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

(AP) — To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, US wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...

A barred Owl at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. (Ray Bosch/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The federal government will move ahead with plans to kill tens of thousands of barred owls in ...

As we heard from the Times-Standard a couple of weeks ago, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) wants to shoot a lot of barred owls – more than 400,000 in fact! … in the belief that this is the ...

Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop a plan to kill barred owls, which is part of a federal plan to save endangered spotted owls. Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Nov. 16 proposed saving the endangered northern spotted owl by shooting more than 400,000 barred owls in Oregon and Washington over a 30-year period. USFWS ...

A federal plan to kill barred owls to protect spotted owls interferes with the “evolutionary paths” of the species contrary to environmental laws, according to animal rights advocates. The Animal ...

Observers say the western screech owl is down to just a few birds, mainly due to habitat loss and predation by its larger ...