Inside an 83,000-acre Oregon forest, surveyors went looking for northern spotted owls and found only three. Hundreds of their ...

New research shows northern spotted owls are functionally extinct in some regions, with habitat loss and barred owls driving ...

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, ...

A controversial federal plan to kill nearly half a million barred owls along the West Coast is now in a judge’s hands after a key hearing last week in Portland, but an animal rights lawyer says the ...

The state could kill up to 350 barred owls in the Elliott State Research Forest over the coming year, as federal agencies also kill the invasive bird.

The Barred owl is larger, has a more diverse diet, and they’ve lost much of their habitat in the east to logging and development. In 2025 the US Fish Wildlife Agency, which had done some good things ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service plans to shoot the invasive owls in the Pacific Northwest to help protect the threatened northern spotted owl. A Fish and Wildlife Service plan to kill scads of barred ...

A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, a soft, crescendoing hoot. "There she is," says Matthias Leu, chair of ...