Yahoo

Lawmakers urge Trump administration to cancel owl-killing plan, say it would cost too much

FILE - A female barred owl sits on a branch in the wooded hills, Dec. 13, 2017, outside Philomath, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday urged the Trump ...
Los Angeles Times

Lawmakers call on Trump administration to nix plan to shoot 450,000 owls, citing cost

Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a plan to kill up to nearly a half-million barred owls in West Coast states over three decades to protect the spotted owl. A bipartisan group of ...
KGW8

Killings of invasive owls to ramp up on US West Coast in a bid to save native birds

PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a ...
The Columbian

Why wildlife officials are killing some PNW owls to save others

ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 2019 AND THEREAFTER- This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a ...
Birds & Blooms on MSN

How to Identify a Barred Owl

Learn what a barred owl looks like and what their call sounds like. Plus learn where you can spot these large owls in North ...
Los Angeles Times

A plan to shoot 450,000 owls — to save a different owl — could be in jeopardy

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...
KUOW

Killing barred owls to save northern spotted owls: Rethinking American wildlife conservation

The Barred Owl is considered “invasive” in the Pacific Northwest and it’s pushing the Northern Spotted Owl to extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a plan — kill nearly half a million ...
Yahoo

Plan to kill thousands of owls in California draws fierce opposition from some lawmakers

A group of 19 lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter last week, asking the federal government to halt a plan that aims to kill tens of thousands of barred owls along the West Coast, including in ...

Police officer and aspiring falconer swoops in to aid injured owl

When a concerned citizen called Ottawa police about a hobbled owl in the Stittsville area, they couldn't have known that one ...
WFSB

Concussed owl rescued from the side of the Merritt Parkway

WESTPORT, CT (WFSB) - A driver rescued an injured barred owl from the Merritt Parkway on Monday. Westport Animal Shelter Advocates reported that the commuter picked up the owl in Westport and ...
SFGate

'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and California after a short-lived effort to halt the cull was thwarted in the ...