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 ...

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

Hofstadter has been carrying out the most expansive barred owl removal effort to date – a research project involving six hunters that has killed more than 1,000 owls in Northern California since 2019 ...

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 ...

Rather than killing one owl species to preserve another, the federal government should focus on restoring forest health and developing lush habitats. In other words, officials should abandon a project ...

Five Northwest conservation groups have joined the federal government in defending a program to kill barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect the threatened northern spotted owl. These ...

In August 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a plan to kill 450,000 invasive barred owls along the West Coast. The plan permits the lethal removal of the owls by attracting them with ...

Last month I was walking through the woods by my house at sunset when a nearly fully-grown juvenile barred owl swooped over my head and landed on a branch in front of me. I was awestruck by this ...

Do you know that approximately 1,000 local or native owls call San Diego County home? Of the 19 owl species in North America, seven of them live in San Diego. Most common in our neighborhoods are the ...

This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to ...