The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is keeping its aim trained on the barred owl, hoping an effort to cull the species could save its close genetic relative. In a final plan released Wednesday, the ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed killing hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years in an effort to protect the endangered northern spotted owl, which competes with the ...

To save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, one plan suggests killing thousands of barred owls. Conservationists and ...

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 ...

"We can provide valuable information." Researchers issue warning after noticing concerning shift in owl behavior: 'Some don't ...

(AP) — To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, US wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...

As part of my master’s degree program at the University of New Mexico in 1961-62 I took a course in ornithology taught by the eminent biologist, Dr. James Findley. The operative definition we used for ...

U.S. wildlife officials next year will scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests. Federal officials said Wednesday they've ...

A federal plan to kill barred owls to protect spotted owls interferes with the “evolutionary paths” of the species contrary to environmental laws, according to animal rights advocates. The Animal ...

Northern spotted owl numbers have continued to decline in North America’s Pacific Northwest, partly due to competition from barred owls considered invasive in the region. The spotted owl has been ...