Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill that would make it illegal to purchase or use rodenticide in Rhode Island is one step closer to becoming law. S 651 A, ...

An Accomack County man pleaded guilty in federal court to killing a bald eagle on his property on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. William Custis Smith of Hallwood was sentenced to a day in jail, 50 hours of ...

Stripes, round bodies, dark penetrating eyes. At a glance, the barred owl and the northern spotted owl are easily mistaken for the same bird. So what warrants protections for one and killing the other ...

Last month in Virginia, news reports told the story of a barred owl that shimmied down a chimney and perched on the family’s Christmas tree, displacing the star placed at its apex. Around the same ...