Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest ...

Federal officials are planning to hire hunters with shotguns to exterminate tens of thousands of cat-sized barred owls in California and the Pacific Northwest as the birds "invade" from the east. The ...

To save the Spotted Owls in the Pacific Northwest, U.S. officials are planning to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its final ...

Biologist Eric Forsman was delighted that a breeding pair of wild spotted owls he has studied for years did it again (their 3-week-old hatchlings on a hemlock in Oregon this past May). ⓒ Gary Braasch ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has a strategy for owl preservation: kill some to safeguard others. The agency's proposal, which is open for public commentary until early 2024, seeks to preserve the ...

A taken barred owl is not done so in vain. From each killed barred owl, biologist Mark Higley takes as much information as possible from body measurements, blood and stomach samples, to feather ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Scientists want to determine whether killing the ...

Despite sightings of big, bullying barred owls in Marin County, the native and threatened northern spotted owl population has remained steady, according to a new report. Out of 49 sites surveyed in ...

There is something shocking about trying to save one species by killing nearly half a million of another species. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed in a plan to save the ...

The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is the "canary in the coal-mine" for the health of old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. This owl indicates the status of old-growth ...

Last month, I observed a bird on my property that had never been seen or heard there before. As I was getting ready for bed, I heard an owl calling from the forest in my yard. I hear owls frequently ...

It's breeding season for the rapidly declining California spotted owl, and Ben Vizzachero was about to lead an effort to survey the stately conifer forests and oak woodlands of Los Padres National ...