None of the three is very common in our area. The quite different pygmy owl is small too, but that one occupied a whole essay by itself, so here I’ll say a bit about three others. They range in ...

We won the owl 732,000 acres of critical habitat in 1999. But developers fought back in 2001, with the tacit support of the Bush administration, and their lawsuit seeking to remove the pygmy owl’s’ ...

Murray Zelt was enjoying photographing a northern pygmy owl hunting a vole near 100 Mile House in B.C.'s Cariboo, about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver, when he watched the tiny raptor get hit ...

Now that’s tiny! The elf owl and the ferruginous pygmy-owl, which is no larger than an American robin, make their homes in the desert. As cavity nesters, they often use holes in giant cactus.

We won the owl 732,000 acres of critical habitat in 1999. But developers fought back in 2001, with the tacit support of the Bush administration, and their lawsuit seeking to remove the pygmy owl’s’ ...