Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fledgling barred owl sits in a tree at Muir Woods in Mill Valley, Calif. (Michael Macor / San Francisco Chronicle) The strange ...

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 ...

DEI might still be alive and well on the West Coast. The US government has begun shooting down up to 450,000 barred owls across California, Oregon and Washington — in a controversial culling effort to ...

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. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Barred owls are notoriously aggressive and territorial, and have been known to attack humans, even when seemingly unprovoked. Now, the federal government plans to authorize killing up to 450,000 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Senators voted down a GOP resolution to cancel a plan to kill barred owls to protect the northern spotted owl in ...

Quietly, garnering little public attention, armed federal agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are seeking to shoot every barred owl in Pacific Northwest forests. As we will explain, 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, ...

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 ...

The center's raptor program director, Lindsay Focht, worked over recent years with Bill Stout, a raptor expert from Ashippun, ...