A federal plan to kill barred owls to protect spotted owls interferes with the “evolutionary paths” of the species contrary to environmental laws, according to animal rights advocates. The Animal ...

William & Mary researchers hope their studies on barred owls will show how they are adapting to man-made environments. For over two years, researchers in the university’s biology department have been ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed killing hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years in an effort to protect the endangered northern spotted owl, which competes with the ...

This research highlights the need to study the entire diel cycle—the full 24-hour period—in animal ecology, rather than focusing solely on their active phases. For example, while owls are typically ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has drawn two federal lawsuits from animal welfare groups alleging that a plan to cull invasive barred owls in national parklands — including three in Marin — ...

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...

Northern spotted owl numbers have continued to decline in North America’s Pacific Northwest, partly due to competition from barred owls considered invasive in the region. The spotted owl has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A barred owl at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, in Oregon. (Ray Bosch/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A controversial plan to ...