The snowy owl, Quebec's majestic avian emblem and Harry Potter's iconic companion, is at risk of becoming endangered if ...

While policies to shoot the animals at airports arose from accidents, Smith responded with a different strategy. Retiree ...

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada says the snowy owl population has gone down by more than 40 per ...

Spotted owls nest from March to September ... Listed as a threatened species in 1990, the northern spotted owl is related to two other subspecies: the California spotted owl, found in the Sierra ...

A paper published in December in Bird Conservation International presented the first global assessment of snowy owl numbers. And they are a cause for heightened concern for the species.

Females also whistle. The snowy owl is listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The species population has decreased 64% since 1970, per Partners in Flight.

Their ear openings are particularly large for an owl but, like other owls, their cochlea—a hollow tube that in many species transmits sounds to the brain—is three or four times as long as that ...

Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

The coming weeks will tell the tale of the winter of 2024-25. Snowy owls are an owl species with white or white-and-black plumage. They are the heaviest owl in North America, with an average ...

The Trump administration proposed changing the interpretation of the Endangered Species Act to allow developers to alter the habitats of endangered species like panthers, sea turtles and owls ...

Logan Airport has the largest known concentration of snowy owls in the northeast ... personable and they can be ambassadors for the owl species," he added. Smith's work is now getting national ...