What Does a Barred Owl Look Like? Barred owls are large brownish and white striped or “barred” raptors with no visible feather tufts on their heads. Unlike many of its owl relatives with yellow eyes, ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Fred Bettencourt was taking his dogs for a walk around Lake Shawnee earlier this week when he had an unexpected wildlife encounter he won’t forget anytime soon. 27 News caught up with ...

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...

Hofstadter has been carrying out the most expansive barred owl removal effort to date – a research project involving six hunters that has killed more than 1,000 owls in Northern California since 2019 ...

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 ...

DEI might still be alive and well on the West Coast. The US government has begun shooting down up to 450,000 barred owls across California, Oregon and Washington — in a controversial culling effort to ...

Federal officials are taking action to save a threatened and endangered owl, but it will come at a cost to another species. The goal is to help the Northern and California Spotted Owl from the ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – 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 ...

Last month I was walking through the woods by my house at sunset when a nearly fully-grown juvenile barred owl swooped over my head and landed on a branch in front of me. I was awestruck by this ...

This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to ...