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 ...

Pygmy owls are an adorably small bird species that make their home in Europe. Their habitat spans as far north as Norway and east into China. But the tiny bird of prey now has a new home base: the Val ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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.

Ferruginous Pygmy Owls use striking false eye spots on the back of their heads to confuse predators and stay alert. This ...

Pygmy owls, numbering barely two dozen known adults in Southern Arizona, might be bred in captivity starting this spring. The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Wildlife enthusiasts have been gathering in southern Utah to spot a rare bird of prey, not with their eyes, but with lenses that can see what the eye can’t see. In recent days, a couple of northern ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s anticipated proposals to weaken the Endangered Species Act by rolling back critical protective regulations could seal the fate for the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl. This ...

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 ...