According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, barred owls are competing for the available habitat with spotted owls and the spotted owls are losing the battle.

The Marin nonprofit has joined a coalition of conservation groups defending a federal plan to kill invasive barred owls in ...

The "barred owl management strategy" approved in August calls for hunting and killing nearly half a million barred owls over 30 years across Washington, Oregon and California. The plan is designed ...

Five Northwest conservation groups have joined the federal government in defending a program to kill barred owls in the ...

and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to eastern North America but began moving West at the turn of the 20th century. Scientists believe they migrated to western Canada across ...

We can look for short-eared owls above open fields, sweeping by on moth-like wingbeats, while long-eared owls spend their ...

FILE - Barred owls from the east have moved in and taken over spotted owl habitat in the western forests of Oregon, and are now pushing spotted owls closer and closer to extinction. Nick Fisher ...

The “barred owl management strategy” approved in August calls for hunting and killing nearly half a million barred owls over 30 years across Washington, Oregon and California. The plan is ...

Stripes, round bodies, dark penetrating eyes. At a glance, the barred owl and the northern spotted owl are easily mistaken for the same bird. So what warrants protections for one and killing the ...