A debate rages over the culling of barred owls to save northern spotted owls, one that eludes easy classification.

A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special ...

Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, voted against ...

To prevent the extinction of the threatened spotted owl species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill thousands of invasive barred owls across forests in the western U.S. The plan, ...

A controversial conservation strategy that has sparked division among both lawmakers and environmentalists will move forward.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of animal advocacy organizations are calling on the federal government to stop a proposal that aims to save spotted owl populations by killing invasive barred owls in ...

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 ...

A northern spotted owl, left, and a barred owl. The federal government announced a plan to kill half a million of the invasive barred owls, which are encroaching on the habitat of the rapidly ...

Many barred owls could die so that northern spotted owls may thrive under a management strategy finalized this week by the Fish and Wildlife Service. With the larger and more aggressive barred owls ...

The groups filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit about critical habitat for the northern spotted owl in California, Oregon and Washington. Environmental groups now want to help defend the northern ...

Native to the arctic, snowy owls migrate south in the winter, sometimes as far as Ohio. Here's where one was spotted recently ...