Efforts to track northern spotted owl populations might be one of the latest casualties in the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts. In a press release issued Wednesday ...

Spotted owls are disappearing fast, and federal cuts could mean no one’s left to count them A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif.

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 plans to kill about 450,000 invasive barred owls to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest.

Killing 60,000 to 100,000 barred owls across a portion of the West would permit the spotted owl population to rise to about 8,400, officials say.

Stripes, round bodies, dark penetrating eyes. At a glance, the barred owl and the northern spotted owl are easily mistaken for the same bird.

Given the ecosystemic impacts of barred owls, removing them is also likely to benefit other wildlife beyond the spotted owl.

A proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency to shoot naturally migrating barred owls because they are moving into spotted owl territory is fraught and ought to be rethought.

Perhaps no species was more emblematic of conflict over the Endangered Species Act in the Pacific Northwest than the Northern spotted owl.

The northern spotted owl can’t get a break. The Pacific Northwest bird's survival is in peril due to a combination of factors including climate change, wildfires, human-caused habitat ...

Officials said northern spotted owl populations in the northern half of the species’ range ‒ where barred owls have moved in most aggressively ‒ have dropped by more than 75% in 20 years.