A female Mexican spotted owl with her owlets behind her in an oak tree. They like vertical canopy diversity with medium trees to perch on when foraging and sleeping, also called roosting. And they ...

Close up of a Mexican Spotted Owl's face (Strix occidentalis lucida), a subspecies of the Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis) The Mexican Spotted Owl is indigenous to mature forests and canyons of Mexico ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. June 6, 2024 — Walking through the dappled light of a southwestern forest at dusk, scientists focus their eyes aloft. Their quarry? A Mexican spotted owl perched high in the ...

The spotted owl has long served as a flagship species for environmentalists across the nation, and the Mexican spotted owl is the Southwest's most famous old-growth resident. Unfortunately, by the ...

PHOENIX — The endangered Mexican spotted owls in southern Arizona are being threatened by a copper mining project, according to a notice filed Tuesday. The Center for Biological Diversity jointly ...

SALT LAKE CITY - A California-based legal firm and Arizona cattlemen have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's designation of critical habitat for the Mexican ...

Advocates with Tucson’s Center for Biological Diversity say two federal agencies failed to adequately inform the public about a proposed road project’s potential impacts on critical habitats, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 8.6 million acres of federal land in four Western states as critical habitat for the Mexican spotted owl. The designation, ...

PHOENIX - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a decision to designate 8.6 million acres in the Southwest, including nearly 4 million acres in Arizona, as critical habitat for the Mexican spotted ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Biologists have found a record number of Mexican Spotted Owl chicks on Los Alamos National Labs property and that’s a big deal because their numbers have been dwindling. Nest ...