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

MANTEO, N.C. (WNCT) — Barred Owls steal the spotlight at the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, where they seem to enjoy being photographed. According to a press release from Alligator… ...

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FILE - A female barred owl sits on a branch in the wooded hills, Dec. 13, 2017, ... Barred owls are native to eastern North America and started appearing in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s.

USFWS said lethal removal of barred owls, by trained professionals, would occur in less than half of the areas where spotted and invasive barred owls co-exist within the northern spotted owl’s ...

The bigger, more aggressive barred owl displaces and prevents native spotted owls from reproducing. Where barred owl densities are highest, like in British Columbia and Washington, spotted owls ...

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) ...

The cost estimate per owl is $3,000. Extrapolating that figure means the cost of killing 450,000 owls across the Northwest over 30 years would be $1.35 billion.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates a maximum of about 15,600 invasive barred owls per year could be removed over 30 years, which adds up to between 400,000 and 500,000 of the birds if ...