They sometimes hunt for smaller game by standing or walking along the ground. Owls have even been known to prey upon unlucky cats and dogs.

U.S. Forest Service layoffs have upended surveys for spotted owls in Southern and Northern California, threatening data collection for the declining birds.

Burrowing owls, the only owl species that nests and roosts underground, have suffered significant habitat loss due to sprawl development, conversion of grasslands to agricultural lands, large-scale ...

The Tamarack Wildlife Center in Saegertown said in a March 1 post on Facebook that the owl was found “on the ground under her family’s nest” at the Panther Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh.

"The Great Horned owls that fell are the typical ones that ... Birds that are mostly feathered and hopping on the ground—those are the ones we ask the public to leave alone," Larose explained.