The writer Franz Linz explores a federal plan to protect the spotted owl. By Soumya Karlamangla Northern spotted owls, which are losing a competition with barred owls over food and space in the ...

What Does a Barred Owl Look Like? Barred owls are large brownish and white striped or “barred” raptors with no visible feather tufts on their heads. Unlike many of its owl relatives with yellow eyes, ...

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

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 ...

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The spotted owl has been a conservation flashpoint for more than 30 years. While habitat loss has been their historic foe, their most recent threat comes from within the owl family tree: the barred ...

A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special conservation status by federal and state governments. The list includes mammals, ...