In 2012, in response to our work in court, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 24,527 acres (38 square miles) of critical habitat to protect the Pacific Coast population of these birds in ...

M ore than 80,000 birds have died over the past two and half months at a network of wildlife refuges on the Oregon-California ...

FILE - Barred owls from the east have moved in and taken over spotted owl habitat in the western forests of Oregon ... can out-compete the smaller native birds for prey and nesting spots.