The tiny cactus ferruginous pygmy owl didn’t fare well in federal court last week. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Fish ...

After a federal judge upheld removal of the pygmy owl from the endangered species list, environmentalists are now asking the U.S. government to classify the bird as endangered in both Arizona and ...

PHOENIX — Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at forcing the federal government to protect Arizona’s diminishing cactus ferruginous pygmy owl population under the Endangered Species ...

A coalition of environmental groups says it will sue the federal government to restore the pygmy owl's endangered status unless the government decides within a week to do that on its own. The notice ...

Europe’s smallest bird of prey, the Eurasian pygmy owl, has now been confirmed in Spain for the first time, marking a westward expansion from the bird’s usual range. Researchers first captured the ...

Feb. 9—I've been searching for a northern pygmy-owl for the past few winters now, and honestly, I was starting to lose hope. Permanent residents here in this corner of Northwest Montana, they move to ...

This little owl was quite frequently detected in the trees at the edge of the wetlands this fall. And one appeared on the doorstep of a friend’s house, just sitting in the snow, which she photographed ...

My first northern pygmy-owl sighting, on the border of a wooded property near Columbia Falls on Saturday, Jan. 18. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) I’ve been searching for a northern pygmy-owl for the ...