Why are flies swarming this tiny owl? The Eurasian Pygmy Owl may look cute, but its scent attracts all kinds of insects — ...

I didn’t get to see my favorite bird, the flammulated owl, but I got to hear three of them. That made 51 consecutive years of ...

This pygmy owl, in Altar Valley near Three Points, is one of only 20 known to be left in Arizona — the northernmost portion of the owls’ range.

Pygmy owl threats Habitats impacted. Arizona’s population growth rates expanded significantly since 2010, including in the historic habitat of these owls, according to the Federal Register.

Ingraldi’s team surveyed 52 pygmy owl territories and found that 79 percent of them had one male owl or a nesting pair present, noting 21 of the sites found this year were new.

The name “pygmy-owl” derives from the small size of all the species. Northern pygmy-owls measure in the 6-inch range tip of beak to tip of tail, and they weigh at or even under 2 ounces.

The pygmy owl was protected as an endangered species from 1997 to 2006, before an industry lawsuit and the Bush administration’s subsequent decision to strip protection from it. This decision was not ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Following multiple petitions and lawsuits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today again protected the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after ...

Following the owl's delisting in 2006, conservation groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, submitted a new petition to relist the bird.

By Shanna Hanbury 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.

Hikers on an outing in the Cascades occasionally look up to a tree-top and notice a tiny owl staring down at them. This is the northern pygmy-owl and it is tiny, indeed, a mere 63/4 inches long ...

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 ...