With bird nomenclature set for a major shake-up, David Campbell suggests it's time to ban boring names and officially ...

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

The northern spotted owl, native to the West Coast region, has been endangered since 1990. The species is listed as Near Threatened under the Endangered Species Act and according to the American ...

Athene comes from “Athena,” the name of the Greek goddess associated with the owl. The Latin cunicularus means “little miner ... increased predation by nonnative or feral species, habitat ...

As the name suggests, burrowing owls primarily roost ... Burrowing owls are known to be the most diurnal of all owl species, ...

Sadly they’re no match for urban development gobbling up their unique Sonoran Desert habitat in the U.S. Southwest. These tiny owls have become synonymous with wild Sonoran Desert: Endangered Species ...