Next time you hear hooting and it sounds like “Who’s coming for dinner,” take a look in your garden or backyard to determine ...

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan to cull barred owls in order to protect northern spotted owls, but it could be ...

(BARRED OWL CALL) CHAKRABARTI: The two species are close relatives. The medium sized, dark brown, Northern Spotted Owl being smaller than its more aggressive and territorial cousin the Barred Owl.

While barred owls prey mainly on meadow voles, shrews and deer mice, their diet includes other mammals, birds, small fish, reptiles, amphibians and insects. Threats: While not a threatened species ...

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Sadly, they're now pushing out the spotted owl, a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Strangely, for such a common raptor, there hasn't been much study of barred owls.

A barred owl perches on a tree branch amid air plants in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida. Klaus Nigge/National Geographic Creative. By 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Service had decided that the ...

Killing 60,000 to 100,000 barred owls across a portion of the West would permit the spotted owl population to rise to about 8,400, officials say. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

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 the west coast.

FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, inside a lab in Corvallis, Ore. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) ...

SEATTLE — A U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal to kill non-native owls to protect the endangered northern spotted owl has sparked controversy among conservation groups. Decades of work have been ...