In a recent post to the Ohio Division of Wildlife Facebook page, officials shared a picture of a young barred owl they said was recently spotted in a central Ohio backyard where several more owls were ...

HIGLEY: Oh, we wouldn't have any spotted owls left by now. Absolutely not. HEGYI: Barred owls are native to the woodlands of the eastern U.S., but they started to move west in the early 1900s as ...

HIGLEY: Oh, we wouldn't have any spotted owls left by now. Absolutely not. HEGYI: Barred owls are native to the woodlands of the eastern U.S., but they started to move west in the early 1900s as ...

U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a plan ...

The agency’s plan called for more than 2,400 barred owls to be removed this year and for that number to ramp up to more than 15,500 birds annually beginning in 2027.

Barred owls, with their vivid brown stripes, are acting like bullies of the forest in the Northwest, driving their smaller cousins, the northern spotted owl, to the brink of extinction. Once ...

In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers asked the agency to halt a plan to kill 450,000 barred owls along the West Coast.

Under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan approved last year, trained shooters would target barred owls over 30 years. Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:26:41 GMT (1750508801970) Story Infinite Scroll ...