VIENTIANE, Laos, June 27 (UPI) -- Families across northern Laos need to safeguard barn owl habitat to combat the worst infestation of rats in 20 years, agriculture experts advise.
NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- Power company Con Ed said it has nixed a mechanical owl that failed to prevent parrots from blowing a New York electrical transformer.
RAYLEIGH, England, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- An animal protection officer and the fire brigade called out to rescue an owl in Rayleigh, England, only to learn the owl was a fake.
HARTHILL, England, April 18 (UPI) -- A large eagle owl has moved into a village in Northern England, scaring some residents and fascinating others.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 17 (UPI) -- Whether to declare the sage grouse an endangered species has pit environmentalists against ranchers in the northwestern United States.
CUMBRIA, England, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Conservationists at England's Forestry Commission found what they believe to be the oldest breeding tawny owl ever found.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Washington state's Forest Practices Board has rejected a request to more closely study timber cutting in the spotted owl's remaining habitat.
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Florida wildlife officials released a rare Antillean short-eared owl that turned up injured three weeks earlier at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
PLEASANT SPRINGS, Wis., March 2 (UPI) -- Bird watchers excited by a great gray owl near a southern Wisconsin power station on Lake Kegonsa sparked a security scare at the facility.
KERNVILLE, Calif., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A fire in California's Sequoia National Forest, which has been raging for more than a month, is threatening the habitat and the existence of local wildlife.
